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JumpCrisscross • yesterday at 10:37 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Idk, one could come up with a hypothesis that eclipses provide the first tangible validation of a system of mathematics.


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teamonkey • yesterday at 11:00 PM

If there were greater significance to it, I’d have thought the the visual sizes of the Sun and Moon would have been perfectly matched, rather than to within a few percent, give-or-take.

Also since the Sun-Earth distance varies and so does the Earth-Moon distance, the coverage of the Sun varies. We sometimes get annular eclipses where the Sun is not totally covered.