Black
Saturday Eclipse
On February
25th 1598 an eclipse of the Sun was visible over the UK. This was an
unusual south-north eclipse, starting in Cornwall passing through Wales and
ending in Aberdeen. The eclipse lasted for 1 minute and 33 seconds.
In Scotland
the sky went so dark that according to reports people got lost while out in the
snow and perished. This could be a reason why this eclipse is referred to in
Scotland as the ‘Black Saturday Eclipse’
‘The date on
the map is different to the text because the NASA eclipse site does not make an
allowance for the change of calendar from the Julian to the Gregorian.
As a partial
eclipse it was observed by Tycho Brahe in Holstein, Christen Hansen in Jutland,
and by Longomontanus from Rostok.
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