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# How Was a Solar Eclipse Observed in the Seventeenth Century?
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/kak-nabliudali-solnechnoe-zatmenie-v-xvii-veke/
- Published: 2018-06-04T09:58:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:44:33.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: NB!, Archive, Science, Mores

How was a solar eclipse observed in the seventeenth century? On 12 August 1654, people looked at the sun through smoked glass; the more resourceful used a mirror, and the very cunning a dish or a bucket of water