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Hockey, Thomas |
America???s First Eclipse Chasers |
I12714 |
2023 |
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Sterken, Christiaan |
Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas |
I09215 |
2020 |
eBook |
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Cavallaro, Umberto |
The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks |
I08563 |
2018 |
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| Title | America???s First Eclipse Chasers : Stories of Science, Planet Vulcan, Quicksand, and the Railroad Boom |
| Author(s) | Hockey, Thomas |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XVIII, 443 p. 105 illus., 102 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 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 |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031241246 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. History of Physics and Astronomy
5. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
6. PHYSICS
7. SCIENCE
8. United States
9. US History
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| Title | Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas : A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War |
| Author(s) | Sterken, Christiaan;King, Amy Abercrombie |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2020. |
| Description | XIII, 161 p. 27 illus., 23 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of his escape in 1862. The editors, an astronomer and a French language teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more depth and historical context to the story |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030465384 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. HISTORY
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
9. PHYSICS
10. United States???History
11. US History
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| Title | The Race to the Moon Chronicled in Stamps, Postcards, and Postmarks : A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic |
| Author(s) | Cavallaro, Umberto |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XI, 338 p. 263 illus., 233 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The story of the famed race to the Moon between the US and the USSR has been told countless times. The strategies of these two superpowers have often been paralleled in a way that highlights their fight for dominance and efforts to develop needed new technologies. This book will show how beneath these surface similarities, the two competing nations employed very different core tactics. It provides a new perspective of the history of the space race by analyzing that history through philately - that is, from the images on postage stamps, post cards, and letters in circulation at that time. Through this fascinating historical visual record, the author shows how the propaganda-heavy approach of the USSR eventually lost out to the more pragmatic approach of the United States |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319921532 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Europe, Eastern???History
5. HISTORY
6. Popular Science in Astronomy
7. Popular Science in History
8. Russia???History
9. Russian, Soviet, and East European History
10. SPACE SCIENCES
11. Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
12. United States???History
13. US History
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