The total solar eclipse is the most impressive, memorable and
indelible among all astronomical phenomena. For no apparent reason,
and without warning, the sky darkens, the air becomes cooler, the sun
disappears, and at that moment the sun disappears and a black hole
appears in its place, surrounded by a pearly glow, stars flare and no
one knows how long it will last. The silence comes, which is not
broken even by the cry of a rare bird, and then suddenly and
unexpectedly the first ray of the sun appears, the sun is visible again,
and everything is repeated in reverse order. This happens from
century to century, since the dawn of human civilization. It is difficult
to imagine humans not including in their perception of the world this
grand cosmic spectacle, where people are curious, but powerless
contemplatives.
