solar eclipse – Circulating Now from the NLM Historical Collections

An abstract, surreal drawing including a silhouette head with brain, neurons, and medical imagery.

Drawn To, Drawn From Experience

November 14, 2017 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Dawn Hunter, Associate Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina and Fulbright España Senior Research Fellow

Photograph taken during the solar eclipse in Spain in 1860.

Total Eclipse of the Sun

September 1, 2017 circulating now

In 1860, at the dawn of astronomical photography, a total eclipse event occurred in which the shadow of the moon passed over North America, Spain