Gallery Walk: Eclipses, Harbingers of Doom or Scientific Progress?
Multiple Days: 08/18/2017, 08/19/2017Location:
Portrait Gallery in the Second Bank of the U.S., Chestnut Street between 4th and 5th Streets,
Time: 12:30 PM to 1:00 PMFee Information: FREE On August 21, 2017, the United States will be visited by its first total solar eclipse in 38 years. The moon's shadow will trace a 70 mile-wide path from Newport, OR to Charleston, SC, with a partial eclipse visible to the rest of the United States. Join us for a Ranger guided program where we will discuss how eclipses, transits, and occultations went from harbingers of doom and prophetic omens to tools of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th and 18th century that not only helped to establish the borders of a new Nation, but also established our place in the Cosmos.
