Totality: the great American eclipses of 2017 and 2024

1. The experience of totality

2. The great celestial cover-up

3. Ancient efforts to understand

4. Eclipses in mythology

5. The strange behavior of man and beast

long ago

6. The Sun at work

7. The first eclipse chasers

8. The eclipse that made Einstein famous

9. Observing a total eclipse

10. Eye safety during solar eclipses

11. The strange behavior of man and beast-modern times

12. Eclipse photography

13. The all-American eclipse of 2017

14. The weather outlook

15. When is the next one? Total eclipses: 2018-2023

16. Coming back to America: the total eclipse of 2024

17. Epilogue: Eclipses

cosmic perspective, human perspective.