American eclipse
a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
American eclipse
a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
Book - 2017
In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, revealing the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. James Craig Watson, in his day a renowned asteroid hunter; Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell, who fought to demonstrate that science and higher learning were not anathema to femininity; and Thomas Edison, a young inventor and irrepressible showman. With vivid accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, Baron's page-turning drama not only brings to life the mythologized age of the Wild West in a totally unexpected way but forever memorializes an historic eclipse that would come to symbolize American science in its ascendance.--
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a American eclipse : |b a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world / |c David Baron. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, N.Y. : |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, |c [2017] | |
| 300 | |a xii, 330 pages : |b illustrations (some color), maps, color chart ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-308) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue: Shall the sun be darkened -- Part one: 1876. Reign of shoddy -- Professor of quadruplicity -- Nemesis -- "Petticoat parliament" -- Part two: 1878. Politics and moonshine -- The wizard in Washington -- Sic transit -- "Good woman that she are" -- Show business -- Part three: 1878. Among the tribes of uncivilization -- Queen city -- Nature's editor -- Old probabilities -- Part four: 1878. Favored mortals -- First contact -- Totality -- American genius -- Part five: 1878-1931. Ghosts -- Shadow and light -- Epilogue: Tendrils of history. | |
| 520 | |a In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, revealing the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. James Craig Watson, in his day a renowned asteroid hunter; Vassar astronomer Maria Mitchell, who fought to demonstrate that science and higher learning were not anathema to femininity; and Thomas Edison, a young inventor and irrepressible showman. With vivid accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, Baron's page-turning drama not only brings to life the mythologized age of the Wild West in a totally unexpected way but forever memorializes an historic eclipse that would come to symbolize American science in its ascendance.-- |c Adapted from book jacket. | ||
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