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The Mediterranean Eclipse, 1870

Nature volume 3, pages 221–224 (1871)Cite this article

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CLOUD in Sicily, cloud in Spain, cloud in Africa. Such at first sight might seem to be the only result of all the observations made on the eclipsed sun of 1870; such the reception given by Nature to those who wooed her as she had never been wooed before, who approached her full of the rarest gifts which Science has placed at man's disposal.

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LOCKYER, J. The Mediterranean Eclipse, 1870. Nature 3, 221–224 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003221a0

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