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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 39 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Jonathan Yen. |
| Summary |
In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. One sought to discover a new planet. Another-an adventuresome female astronomer-fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. And a young, megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations. David Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three competitors-James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison-and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of nineteenth-century American astronomy. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918.
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Eclipses -- History.
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Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Yen, Jonathan.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781681685786 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1681685787 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11895269 |
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