![]() ![]() ![]() American Eclipse: A Nations Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. Shop the latest titles by David Baron at Alibris including hardcovers. As we await the eclipse that will sweep across the United States on 21 August of this year, Baron reminds us: They afford a chance not only to grasp the majesty and power of nature, but to wonder at ourselveswho we are, and who we were when the same shadow long ago touched this finite orb in the boundless void. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.ĭavid Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three competitors - James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison - and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of 19th-century American astronomy. Ruswick on Baron, American Eclipse: A Nations Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. ![]() In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. ![]()
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