Day turned into night and the fighting stopped: How eclipses have shaped history
Day turned into night and the fighting stopped: How eclipses have shaped history In one of the first widely read novels about time-travel, published in 1889, Mark Twain wrote about a man whose life was saved by an eclipse. In Twain's story, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, the protagonist Hank Morgan is knocked unconscious and wakes up in 6th-Century England.astronomyeclipselink