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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That’s pretty hard to answer as visual impairment with age would have been pretty commonplace and just expected. So if ancient people did suffer from eye damage due to looking at an eclipse, it probably wouldn’t show up in sources, as people’s vision was just expected to get worse with age.

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