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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents       More by this author     Baron, David, 1964-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Baron, David, 1964-       by title:      American eclipse : a...         MARC Display

American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world / David Baron. by Baron, David, 1964- New York, N.Y. : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017] [2017] 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. Format:  No. of Holds for all sites :  0 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. Description:  xii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, color chart ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Madison Library District Non-fiction 523.78 Baron, David / American-Eclipse Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email Search Results to:

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