Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century : How America's Perception of the Skies Changed /
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...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Series: | Astrophysics and Space Science Library,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Historical Overview- The United States and Astronomy Until the 1860S
- Scientific Overview
- Popular Astronomy and the Solar Eclipses of 1868, 1869 and 1878
- Popular Astronomy and the Transits of Venus of 1874 and 1882
- Discussion
- Concluding Remarks
- References.