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FEB 01, 1974
Two recent solar eclipses observable over wide areas of the North American continent, plus last year’s well observed event in North Africa, have prompted Michael Mendillo and Richard Hart, of the astronomy department at Boston University, to examine the total‐eclipse situation in some detail. Here is a (somewhat abbreviated) account of their paper on “Total Solar Eclipses, Extraterrestrial Life, and the Existence of God”:

DOI: 10.1063/1.3128458

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