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America’s First Eclipse Chasers

Stories of Science, Planet Vulcan, Quicksand, and the Railroad Boom

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Fachbuch

Buch. Softcover

2023

xviii, 443 S. 3 s/w-Abbildungen, 102 Farbabbildungen, Bibliographien.

In englischer Sprache

Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-24123-9

Format (B x L): 16,8 x 24 cm

Gewicht: 957 g

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: Springer Praxis Books Popular Astronomy

Produktbeschreibung

In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the nation’s first ever eclipse chasers.

Our tale follows the chaotic journeys of scientists and amateur astronomers as they trekked across the western United States to view the rare phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. The fascinating story centers on the expeditions of the 1869 total eclipse, which took place during the turbulent age of the chimerical Planet Vulcan and Civil War Reconstruction.

The protagonists—a motley crew featuring astronomical giants like Simon Newcomb and pioneering female astronomers like Maria Mitchell—were met with unanticipated dangers, mission-threatening accidents, and eccentric characters only the West could produce. Theirs is a story of astronomical proportions. Along theway, we will make several stops across the booming US railroad network, traveling from viewing sites as familiar as Des Moines, Iowa, to ones as distant and strange as newly acquired Alaska.

From equipment failures and botched preparations to quicksand and apocalyptic ‘comets’, welcome to the wild, western world of solar eclipses.

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