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Americans in August can discover the world is round - the same way the ancients did.
A dramatic lesson, part history and part science, will be repeated for those who have missed the twice-a-year spectacular in the past. An eclipse of the moon - the Earth’s shadow falling on the moon - will occur August 16 and be visible throughout the United States except in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii.
The phenomenon will be a partial lunar eclipse. Instead of the Earth’s shadow blotting out the entire shiny face of the foil moon, only about 40 percent will be darkened.
It was that shadow of the Earth, especially the curved edgej of the shadow, that made ancient skywatchers centuries before the Christian era suspect the Earth was circular, the National Geographic Society says.
At first they guessed the Earth was just a disc floating in the sky, the way the moon appeared to be. Later, watching outward bound ships gradually dip and disappear below the horizon, they concluded the Earth was a sphere. The skies have always been watched for signs of good luck and bad, and lunar eclipses have always been considered particularly meaningful. But the message sometimes is garbled in transmission.
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