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  title info:
    title: American eclipse
    sub title: a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
  name:
    name part: Baron, David
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 330 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  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.
  note: David Baron.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Science
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 1865-1918
  subject:
    topic: Eclipses
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: Q127.U6 B2755 2017
  classification: 523.7/80973
  identifier: 9781631490163
  identifier: 1631490168
  identifier: 2017009679
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 170303
    record change date: 20170926120344.0
    record identifier: in00003805707