American eclipse :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
Summary
In vibrant historical detail, American Eclipse animates the fierce jockeying that came to dominate late nineteenth-century American astronomy, bringing to life the challenges faced by three of the most determined eclipse chasers who participated in this adventure. With memorable accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, David Baron's page-turning drama refracts nineteenth-century science through the mythologized age of the Wild West, revealing a history no less fierce and fantastical.
Call Number
SCIENCE / ASTRONOMY / BAR
Publication Date
2024
Language
English
ISBN
9781324094692
American eclipse :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, color, maps ; 21 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.
Call Number
523.78 BAR
Publication Date
2017-2018
Language
English
ISBN
9781631494550
American eclipse :
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
xii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, color chart ; 25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Production / Publication Information
New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]
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.--
Call Number
523.78 BARON
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
ISBN
9781631490163
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