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1 online resource |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Liveright, 2017. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 66215 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB). |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-308) and index. |
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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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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781631490163 |
| ISBN |
9781631490170 (electronic bk) |
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