Ironically a total solar eclipse actually stopped a war back in Ancient Greece, IIRC.
April 10, 2026 - 21:02 UTC
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I am vaguely recalling ancient scientists learning how to predict eclipses and using that as a weapon somehow. Like “threaten us and we shall darken the sun!” before it happened.
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Not really, but it was prestigious to be able to afford an astrologer who could predict eclipses. And these people were also very superstitious so they would like to know when these things would happen .
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Did that really happen? Or are you thinking of the plot point in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"?
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Its a fiction trope I think it apeared first in the Mines of Kig Solomon but theres a Quiroga tale about one explorar that tried to prevent his execution by Aztecs but they laught at hil because they also predicted the eclipse
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