Astro-Challenge: Adventures in Daytime Astronomy

Astro-Challenge: Adventures in Daytime Astronomy
By David Dickinson

It's one of the stranger observations in ancient literature.
A curious account comes to us by the 1st century AD Roman scholar Pliny the Elder, concerning the exploits of Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who notes that:
“The Sun’s radiance makes the fix’d stars invisible in the daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well.”

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September 8, 2020 at 10:31PM
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