America's first eclipse chasers: stories of science, planet vulcan, quicksand, and the railroad boom
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Cham, Switzerland
Springer
[2023]
Chichester, UK Praxis Publishing |
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| Beschreibung: | xviii, 443 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9783031241239 |
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CONTENTS
DEDICATION
.
V
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
.
VIII
PREFACE
.
XI
ABBREVIATIONS
.
XIII
FOREWORD
.
XIV
PROLOG
.
XVI
1 INTRODUCTION: "THE RUSH
OF
THIS
BLACK WING
OF
NIGHT"
.
1
2A TRANS-AMERICAN ECLIPSE
.
11
3 "SOME LIGHT
UPON
THIS
DARK
SUBJECT"
.
28
4 NAVY
ASTRONOMERS
2,000 KILOMETERS ASHORE
.
42
5 "THE VAST BLACK ORB"
.
54
6 NEW ASTRONOMY IN THE
OLD WEST
.
74
7 OBSERVING IN STYLE
.
92
8 MEETING
OF
THE
GRAYHAIRS
.
104
9 "OVERHANGING MONSTER WINGS": THE PHILADELPHIA PHOTOGRAPHIC
CORP.
117
10 SURVEYING
A
SOLAR ECLIPSE
.
132
11 THE CANADIANS: TOQUES
ON
THE
FRONTIER
.
157
V1
V);
BIIOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
HLUENCHE'A
CONTENTS
VII
12 CHASING
THE
UMBRA
THROUGH
TIME
AND
SPACE
.
170
13 "A DARKNESS THAT CAN BE FELT"
.
196
14 STANDING
ON
THE
EDGE LOOKING UP
.
207
15 VULCAN
.
219
16 AMERICANS IN TOTALITY
.
233
17 IN
THE
SHADOW
OF
BENJAMIN BANNEKER
AND
"EVEN THOUGHTLESS
WOMEN
AND
CHILDREN HUSH
.
252
18 FIRE CLOUD
.
265
19 WHAT DID IT ALL MEAN?
.
278
20
.
AND WHAT HAPPENED
AFTER
THAT?
.
299
POSTLOG
.
321
APPENDIX A: SIMON NEWCOMB'S INSTRUCTIONS
TO
AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS
ALONG
THE
EDGE
OF
THE
TOTAL-ECLIPSE PATH
.
323
APPENDIX B: REALLY BAD ADVICE
.
326
APPENDIX C: A RARE ECLIPSE EXPERIMENT
.
328
APPENDIX D: PERSONS WHO OBSERVED
THE
1869 SOLAR ECLIPSE IN TOTALITY
.
331
SOURCES
.
350
CITATIONS
.
379
ILLUSTRATION NOTES
.
428
INDEX
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432 |
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