Mabel Loomis Todd had a penchant for poetry as well as astronomy. Her 1894 book Total Eclipses of the Sun stands as a masterpiece of science writing. Todd was in a unique position to study the latter thanks to her marriage to astronomer David Peck Todd, a professor at Amherst College. Her writing conveyed a sense of wonder that appealed to a wider audience, bringing vivid descriptions of solar eclipses into the popular imagination.
