how did past people observe solar eclipses withought damging their eyesight?

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Pre-renaissance, medieval, roman, etc, did they know they shouldn’t look directly at the eclipse?

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Because in reality it’s perfectly possible and easy to look carefully in the direction of a strong light source if you just squint and blink a bit. You’re not going to go blind the first time you look. 

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