Maps of Solar Eclipses from 1880 to 1884

On January 11, 1880, photographer Eadweard Muybridge, well known for his early photographic studies of objects in motion such as a galloping horse, created this study of the partial phases of the solar eclipse.

From hist photographs, he created this composite image of the progress of the eclipse. Muybridge too 21 successive photographs of the eclipse. The negatives are today held at the Stanford University Museum of Art.