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French Jesuits observing an eclipse with King Narai and his court in April 1688, shortly before the Siamese revolution. The periodicity of lunar eclipses been deduced by Neo-Babylonian astronomers in the sixth century BCE [6] and the periodicity of solar eclipses was deduced in first century BCE by Greek astronomers, who developed the Antikythera mechanism [7] and had understood the Sun, Moon ...
A children's game called Bulan Bulan, Buwan Buwan, or Bakunawa is played in the Philippines. [19] [20] It has 6–8 players arranged in a circle. A player acts as the buwan/bulan (moon) while another player acts as the Bakunawa (eclipse), chosen either through Jack-en-poy, “maalis taya”, or “maiba taya.”
Eclipse is a 4X strategy game where you must lead your civilization to prevail over the others. [1] Players can choose to play as either a human or alien civilization. On each move, a player takes one of six actions: building, exploring, influencing, moving, researching or upgrading.
A "deep eclipse" (or "deep occultation") is when a small astronomical object is behind a bigger one. [2] [3] The term eclipse is most often used to describe either a solar eclipse, when the Moon's shadow crosses the Earth's surface, or a lunar eclipse, when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow. However, it can also refer to such events beyond ...
Eclipse is a computer moderated, space-based play-by-mail (PBM) game. It was published by Midnight Games. 12–20 players per game vied for domination of a galaxy on a game map comprising 180–220 star systems.
The tension between the mainstream traditional religious veneration of Helios, which had become enriched with ethical values, poetical symbolism, [260] and the Ionian proto-scientific examination of the sun, clashed in the trial of Anaxagoras c. 450 BC, in which Anaxagoras asserted that the Sun was in fact a gigantic red-hot ball of metal.
In the 2021 video game The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes, a solar eclipse occurs during the main characters escape from the temple, allowing the alien vampires to come out of their shelter and forcing the characters to hold out against one more attack from the vampires before the eclipse ends. In the 2022 video game Xenoblade ...
Total Eclipse added multi-levels and stairs to the 3D environment. Like the previous Freescape games developed by Major Developments, Total Eclipse takes place from the point of view of the main character, who can move freely within the 3D environment of the game. This time, however, the emphasis is more on adventure, puzzle-solving and ...