Eclipses

Lunar eclipses can be total or partial.

In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex.

There are usually between two and five lunar eclipses each year.

His success met some eclipses.

The sun's eclipses and the changing moons, / whence man and beast, whence lightning and the rain, / Arcturus, watery Hyads and the Wain; / what causes make the winter nights so long, / why sinks the sun so quickly in the main.

In the past, traditional communities saw solar eclipses as portents of disaster.

On his return to Greece he founded the Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon.