American Eclipse
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American Eclipse

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Title: American Eclipse Author: David Baron American History: 1689168 ISBN: 9781324094692 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Section: Science | Space Science | Astronomy Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: With this "suspenseful narrative history" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists--among them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison--who raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of "exhaustive research to reconstruct a rem

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