Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century How America
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 n
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Stella Cottam Wayne Orchiston
Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century How America’s Perception of the Skies Changed
Astrophysics and Space Science Library Volume 406 EDITORIAL BOARD Chairman W. B. Burton, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA, USA ([email protected]); University of Leiden, The Netherlands ([email protected]) F. Bertola, University of Padua, Italy C. J. Cesarsky, Commission for Atomic Energy, Saclay, France P. Ehrenfreund, Leiden University, The Netherlands O. Engvold, University of Oslo, Norway A. Heck, Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory, France E. P. J. Van Den Heuvel, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands V. M. Kaspi, McGill University, Montreal, Canada J. M. E. Kuijpers, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands H. Van Der Laan, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands P. G. Murdin, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK B. V. Somov, Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Russia R. A. Sunyaev, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Stella Cottam • Wayne Orchiston
Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century How America’s Perception of the Skies Changed
Stella Cottam National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand
Wayne Orchiston National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand Chiang Mai, Thailand
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