People traveled across the country to see it. Huge scientific implications because of it. Blindness resulting when people look directly at it. An event that won't be seen again for some time. It's a solar eclipse. It's also...1878.
Astronomy Historian Dr. Steve Ruskin takes us back to a moment when people battled altitude sickness...and native Americans...to see an eclipse. It resulted in a momentous scientific leap forward and changed our understanding of the universe.