To give your healthcare provider important information about the current status of your metabolism, including the health of your kidneys and liver as well as electrolyte and acid/base balance and levels of blood glucose and blood proteins; to monitor known conditions, such as hypertension, and to monitor the use of medications to check for any ...
Ancient Greeks. In 2008, researchers said a reference to a total eclipse was found in Homer's Odyssey, with the lines The sun has perished out of heaven, and an evil mist has overspread the world. The Ancient Greeks believed a total eclipse to be a bad omen.
Because the area on Earth that's inside the tip of the moon's shadow is. usually only a couple of hundred miles wide at most, and it's moving along. the Earth's surface at thousands of miles an hour, and only the people who. happen to be inside that little area see the total solar eclipse. Over a substantial period of time, the numbers of solar and lunar eclipses are equal. For example, during the 100 years of the 20th Century, there were 128 solar eclipses, and 129 lunar ones. The difference is that during a lunar eclipse, everybody on the night side of Earth can see it, but during a solar one, you have to be in just the right place on the day side. Another way to look at it: A lunar eclipse happens on the Moon, and anybody who can see the Moon can see the eclipse. But a solar eclipse happens on the Earth, and in order to see it, you have to be where the eclipse is.