America's First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073P9VVF8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 133 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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An engaging history of America's interest in--and observation of--the solar eclipse of 1878 B Daniel Blatt On August 21, 2017, Americans will be able to see a total solar eclipse as the moon will pass between the earth and the sun, darkening skies for a few minutes across a great swath of the nation and making visible the solar corona. Hotels are already booked in cities ne. "This is a must read for all who are interested in the August 2017 solar eclipse" according to Joanne Behrens. I found this book exceedingly interesting. Once I started to read, I wanted to finish. Knowing that the read would only take a couple of hours, gave me encouragement to do just that.It was written so a person interested in science (me) but not a scientist could underst. Greg Vose said A Beautiful, Engaging, and Accessible History!. America's First Great Eclipse is an engaging and intimate history telling the story of early astronomical and scientific pioneers in the American West focused on one event, The Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878. Normally, histories focus on a grander scale; social-politic
On July 29, 1878, having braved treacherous storms, debilitating altitude sickness, and the threat of Indian attacks, they joined thousands of east-coast tourists and Western pioneers as they spread out across the Great Plains and climbed to the top of 14,000-foot Pikes Peak, all to glimpse one of nature's grandest spectacles: a total solar eclipse. Near the end of the 19th century, when the United States was barely a hundred years old, American astronomers were taking the lead in a science that Europeans had dominated for centuries. America's First Great Eclipse tells the story of a country, and its scientists, on the brink of a new era. Scientists like Samuel Langley, Henry Draper, Maria Mitchell, and even the inventor Thomas Ediso