"The old fellow winked at me," from The Sketch, 1901.

Here's the obsolescence of the sunset over Sarasota Bay.

"Watercolor representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy, after Salomon Trismosin's sixteenth-century alchemical manuscript, Splendor Solis."

Artist: Alphonse Maria Mucha.

"A total eclipse to the girl and a partial eclipse to the boy," from Star-Land by Robert Stawell Ball, 1892.

Here's the sun as a juggler.

"Up with the sun," from an ad for Warner's Safe Yeast, c. 1890.

From Africa, Viajes y Trabajos de la Asociaeion Euskara La Exploradora, 1887.

"I had to make my getaway between two suns.  There was no other horse nor time," said Billy the Kid (The West of Billy the Kid by Frederick Nolan).  Here's what a horse of two suns looks like, from Archiv für Physiologie, 1877.

"The eclipse of the sun" on Sept. 21, 1922, from The Queenslander.

"A transit of Mercury over the Sun's disk," from The Columbian Magazine, 1788.

There are three types of spurious solar eclipses (and they actually constitute our very favorite eclipses):

1. The assimilated eclipse.  A chronicler shifts the date of an eclipse by a year or more to relate it to some other event, whether consciously or unconsciously.
2. The literary eclipse.  A work of fiction features an eclipse that is later taken for a real eclipse by an over-eager reader.
3. The magical eclipse.  A solar eclipse or other celestial sign dramatizes an important battle, the death of a great personage, or the beginning of a wonderful enterprise.

—The Sun Recorded Through History

The sun promises large cash bonuses, as we learn in Natural Science, A Monthly Review of Scientific Progress, 1893.

Just as the nearest exit may be behind you, the nearest sun may be below you, as we learn in Guida alla Chimica by Carlo Lancillotti, 1706.

"The land of the midnight sun": a view of Bolgen Mountain by Thorolf Holmboe, ca. 1907.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.

Our fellow hermits are privy to the secret of how to "Enjoy the sun indoors."  Circa 1937.