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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- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- Title remainder
- a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- Statement of responsibility
- David Baron
- Subject
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- Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Civilization
- Eclipses
- Eclipses -- History
- HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
- History
- 1800-1999
- SCIENCE / History
- Science
- Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States
- United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
- SCIENCE / Astronomy
- Astronomy
- 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
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- 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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