Yeah it’s so dramatic, and since you can feel it grow colder and darker in the minutes leading up to it, I imagine that it must have been quite unsettling.
Actually, around 150 BCE, this would not have been a surprise. Humans first started noticing a pattern around 600-400 BCE, with around 200-100 BCE being able to predict them to some degree, although it was around 200 CE that we started getting much better, with significant refinements in accuracy around 800-1200 CE, 1715 CE and 1825 CE.
But it would not have likely been a shock in 100 BCE
I’ve been in 2 eclipses, and even fully knowing what was going to happen, the dumb lizard part of my brain was freaking out a little because the sun just disappeared at 2pm. It’s a wild experience
Imagine being in 100BC and this happening? Man they must have been freaked out.
Yeah it’s so dramatic, and since you can feel it grow colder and darker in the minutes leading up to it, I imagine that it must have been quite unsettling.
Actually, around 150 BCE, this would not have been a surprise. Humans first started noticing a pattern around 600-400 BCE, with around 200-100 BCE being able to predict them to some degree, although it was around 200 CE that we started getting much better, with significant refinements in accuracy around 800-1200 CE, 1715 CE and 1825 CE.
But it would not have likely been a shock in 100 BCE
I’ve been in 2 eclipses, and even fully knowing what was going to happen, the dumb lizard part of my brain was freaking out a little because the sun just disappeared at 2pm. It’s a wild experience
What freaked me out most was all of the shadows being crescents. I didn’t know that would happen though, when I thought about it, of course it would.
Honestly just seeing shadows look sharp was a weird experience too