Java turned 30 in 2025. That's a good time to look back, but also forward.

There is no natural phenomenon that grips the imagination and stirs the soul of mankind as does a total eclipse. We ought not look at it with the eye of a dog and bark because we do not understand it.

A few seconds before the Sun was all hid, there discovered itself round the Moon a luminous ring about a digit, or perhaps a tenth part of the Moon’s diameter, in breadth. It was of a pale whiteness, ...