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The Late Solar Eclipse

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IN his account of the work of the Eclipse Expedition at Fundium Mr. Fowler seeks to explain his inability to obtain the photographs at the moment of totality by the assumption that he received the signal of the beginning of totality at least ten seconds too late, and he bases this assumption on his own estimate of the difference in time which elapsed between my signal and that of M. Coculesco, one of the French observers at Fundium.

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THORPE, T. The Late Solar Eclipse. Nature 48, 53–54 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048053b0

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