Xenophanes, that the sun is eclipsed when it is extinguished; and that a new sun is created and rises in the east.

He gives a farther account of an eclipse of the sun which remained for a whole month, and again of an eclipse which changed the day into night.

Some declare that the cause of an eclipse is the invisible concourse of condensed clouds which cover the orb of the sun.

Aristarchus placeth the sun amongst the fixed stars, and believeth that the earth [the moon ?] is moved about the sun, and that by its inclination and vergency it intercepts its light and shadows its orb.
Xenophanes, that there are many suns and many moons, according as the earth is distinguished by climates, circles, and zones.

At some certain times the orb of the sun, falling upon some part of the world which is untenanted, wanders in a vacuum and becomes eclipsed.