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Hardcover Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century: How America's Perception of the Skies Changed Book

ISBN: 3319083406

ISBN13: 9783319083407

Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century: How America's Perception of the Skies Changed

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Winner of the AAS 2019 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy

Grabbing the attention of poets, politicians and the general public alike, a series of spectacular astronomical events in the late 1800s galvanized Americans to take a greater interest in astronomy than ever before. At a time when the sciences were not yet as well established in the United States as they were in Europe, this public interest and support provided...

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