.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses have blown away individuals due to the fact that opportunity out of thoughts. The very first report of one, maintained on a clay tablet computer discovered at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is thought coming from its own grow older and location to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Legendary illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunlight being actually eaten through canines, frogs or even dragons. The truth is actually extra prosaic. Eclipses are brought on by the Moon moving between Sunlight and Earth in such a way that throws a darkness on portion of The planet's surface area. Why are total ones, like the one intercrossing portion of The United States and Canada on April 8th, therefore rare?