Title: American eclipse
Description: 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.--
Subjects: Science, Eclipses, Civilization, Astronomy, History, United states, civilization, 1865-1918, Science -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Science -- United States -- History -- 20th century, Eclipses -- History, Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 19th century, Astronomy -- United States -- History -- 20th century, United States -- Civilization -- 1865-1918
Places: United States
Time periods: 1865-1918, 20th century, 19th century