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{{Short description|Total eclipse}}

{{Short description|Total eclipse}}

{{Infobox solar eclipse|1652Apr08}}

{{Infobox solar eclipse|1652Apr08}}

A total [[solar eclipse]] occurred on April 8 [[New Style]] (NS), 1652, a Monday. In contemporary British sources, the date is alternately listed as March 29, 1652 following the [[Old Style]] (OS) as Great Britain had not yet adopted of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] by that time.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780333555644 |last1=Thulesius|first1=Olav|title=Nicholas Culpeper English Physician and Astrologer|date=1992|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-230-37153-8 <!--031207546X--> |page=125 |access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Simpson|first1=J.A.|last2=Weiner|first2=E.S.C.|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|date=1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198612222|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic00jaes/page/111 111]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic00jaes/page/111}}</ref> 19th century authors further adjusted the date to March 25 NS, 1652.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Barrington|first1=D.|title=The Possibility of approaching the North Pole Asserted|journal=The Edinburgh Review|date=June 1818|volume=30|issue=59|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-kEAAAAQAAJ}}</ref> A [[solar eclipse]] occurs when the [[Moon]] passes between [[Earth]] and the [[Sun]], thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's [[apparent diameter]] is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

A total [[solar eclipse]] occurred on April 8 [[New Style]] (NS), 1652, a Monday. In contemporary British sources, the date is alternately listed as March 29, 1652 following the [[Old Style]] (OS) as Great Britain had not yet adopted of the [[Gregorian Calendar]] by that time.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9780333555644 |last1=Thulesius|first1=Olav|title=Nicholas Culpeper English Physician and Astrologer|date=1992|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-230-37153-8 <!--031207546X--> |page=125 |access-date=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Simpson|first1=J.A.|last2=Weiner|first2=E.S.C.|title=The Oxford English Dictionary|date=1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198612222|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic00jaes/page/111 111]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordenglishdic00jaes/page/111}}</ref> 19th century authors further adjusted the date to March 25 NS, 1652 <ref>{{cite journal|last1=Barrington|first1=D.|title=The Possibility of approaching the North Pole Asserted|journal=The Edinburgh Review|date=June 1818|volume=30|issue=59|page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5-kEAAAAQAAJ}}</ref>. A [[solar eclipse]] occurs when the [[Moon]] passes between [[Earth]] and the [[Sun]], thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's [[apparent diameter]] is larger than the Sun's, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness. Totality occurs in a narrow path across Earth's surface, with the partial solar eclipse visible over a surrounding region thousands of kilometres wide.

The path of totality intersected the [[British Isles]], as well as passing just off the west coast of [[Norway]].

The path of totality intersected the [[British Isles]], as well as passing just off the west coast of [[Norway]].



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