Listen to this audiobook free with a 30-day trial. Go to http://hotaudiobook.com/free Title: Mask of the Sun Subtitle: The Science, History and Forgotten Lore of Eclipses Author: John Dvorak Narrator: Corey M. Snow Format: Unabridged Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 10-31-17 Publisher: Tantor Audio Genres: Science & Technology, Astronomy Publisher's Summary: Eclipses have stunned, frightened, emboldened, and mesmerized people for thousands of years. They were recorded on ancient turtle shells discovered in the Wastes of Yin in China, on clay tablets from Mesopotamia and on the Mayan "Dresden Codex". They are mentioned in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and at least eight times in the Bible. Columbus used them to trick people, while Renaissance painter Taddeo Gaddi was blinded by one. Sorcery was banished within the Catholic Church after astrologers used an eclipse to p