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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

By BARON , James Craig , David;Edison , Thomas Alva;Mitchell , Maria;Watson

Book information

Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Year
2018
ISBN
9781631494550, 1631494554
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
65 MB (67812979 bytes)
Pages
xii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1818-1889;Edison-- 1838-1880;Mitchell-- 1847-1931;Science -- United States -- History -Astronomy;Astronomy--United States--History--19thJames C. -- (James Craig)MariaThomas A. -- (Thomas Alva)

Description

"On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. This rare celestial event--a total solar eclipse--offered a priceless opportunity to solve some of the solar system's most enduring riddles, and it prompted a clutch of enterprising scientists to brave the wild frontier in a grueling race to the Rocky Mountains. Acclaimed science journalist David Baron, long fascinated by eclipses, re-creates this epic tale of ambition, failure, and glory in a narrative that reveals as much about the historical trajectory of a striving young nation as it does about those scant three minutes when the blue sky blackened and stars appeared in mid-afternoon."

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