According to astronomers, the eclipse of the moon this week on December 21 (the shortest day of the year) hasn't happened since December 21, 1638... 372 years ago.
Being an astronomy nut, I went out late Monday night and stayed up to see the cloud-veiled moon as it passed through Earth's shadow.
Being a history nut, I mused about the lunar eclipse of December 1638 and how an observer standing on the seashore in Boston or Plymouth at about 8 o'clock at night possibly saw that eclipse of the moon. My forefathers who lived there at the time may have seen it.
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