how medieval manuscripts link lunar eclipses, volcanoes and climate change
- Written by: Heather Handley, Associate Professor of Volcanology and Geoscience Communication, University of Twente and Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
A diagram of a lunar eclipse from De Sphaera Mundi by Johannes de Sacrobosco, c. 1240 AD.New York Public LibraryBefore humans started heating the planet by burning fossil fuels in the 19th century, Earth had experienced centuries-long widespread cool period known as the Little Ice Age.
Scientists believe this cold spell may have been triggered, in...
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