wahid786 (25)in #sci-tech • 8 years agoA history of solar eclipses and bizarre responses to themFrom believing in sun-swallowing monsters to screaming in terror, people have responded to the brief disappearance of the sun in strange ways for millennia. On Aug. 21 the moon…wahid786 rebloggedlaniakea1 (56)in #science • 8 years agoGreat people you have never heard of #2: Aristarchus of SamosIt is not exaggeration if I say that Aristarchus of Samos was one of the most brilliant minds ever. Without any doubt, he was the greatest astronomer of ancient Greece. But…