Most of us have two main impressions about eclipses: they’re amazing and they can blind you. At 31, he invented a tasimeter to measure infrared radiation emitted by the sun. Each year, the moon recedes about an inch and a half from the Earth. It’s not just fiction-Columbus actually used his knowledge of the eclipse to convince Jamaicans that he had incredible powers. You’ve seen the trick in bad movies and corny books: using knowledge of an eclipse to appear to have magical powers.
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