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Baron, David, 1964- author.
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Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Eclipses -- History.
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
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American eclipse : a...
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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 / David Baron.
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Baron, David, 1964- author.
New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, c2017.
Subjects
Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Eclipses -- History.
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
ISBN:
9781631490163 (hardcover) :
1631490168 (hardcover)
Description:
xii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, color chart ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
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.
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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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Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
523.78097 Ba
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Business, Science & Technology
523.78097 Ba
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Hilo Public Library
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523.78097 Baron
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Adult Nonfiction
523.7809 Ba
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Adult Nonfiction
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523.78097 Ba
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