American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world

The Resource American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
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American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
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a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
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David Baron
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Language
eng
Summary
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.--
Assigning source
Adapted from book jacket
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
523.7/80973
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • charts
Index
index present
LC call number
Q127.U6
LC item number
B2755 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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