American eclipse a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
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...
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New York, N.Y. :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: Shall the sun be darkened
- Part one: 1876. Reign of shoddy
- Professor of quadruplicity
- Nemesis
- "Petticoat parliament"
- Part two: 1878. Politics and moonshine
- The wizard in Washington
- Sic transit
- "Good woman that she are"
- Show business
- Part three: 1878. Among the tribes of uncivilization
- Queen city
- Nature's editor
- Old probabilities
- Part four: 1878. Favored mortals
- First contact
- Totality
- American genius
- Part five: 1878-1931. Ghosts
- Shadow and light
- Epilogue: Tendrils of history.
