James M Clune

America’s First Eclipse Chasers

• Author(s): Thomas Hockey

• Categories: Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-05-27
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• Publisher: Springer Nature

In 2017, over 200 million Americans witnessed the spectacular total eclipse of the Sun, and the 2024 eclipse is expected to draw even larger crowds. In anticipation of this upcoming event, this book takes us back in history over 150 years, telling the story of the nation’s first ever eclipse chasers. Our tale follows the chaotic journeys of scientists and amateur astronomers as they trekked across the western United States to view the rare phenomenon of a total solar eclipse. The fascinating story centers on the expeditions of the 1869 total eclipse, which took place during the turbulent age of the chimerical Planet Vulcan and Civil War Reconstruction. The protagonists—a motley crew feat...

Poems

• Author(s): Catharine QUIGLEY

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1813
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• Publisher: Unknown

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The New York City Directory, for ...

• Categories: New York (N.Y.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1850
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Thirty-Seventhy Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the First School District of Pennsylvania Comprising the City and County of Philadelphia, for the Year Ending December 31, 1855

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1856
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report of the Board of Public Education, First School District of Pennsylvania Comprising the City of Philadelphia

• Author(s): Philadelphia (Pa.) Board of Public Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1856
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• Publisher: Unknown

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