Author: David Baron
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631490176
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Get Book Here
Book Description
Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing Winner of the AIP Science Communication Award An Amazon Best Book of the Year (Science) A St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year Finalist for the Colorado Book Award (Nonfiction) Booklist Editors’ Choice (Science & Technology) Featuring a new afterword priming readers for the total solar eclipse of 2024, this “essential” (BBC) account brilliantly captures the celestial and human drama of eclipses. With this “suspenseful narrative history” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air), award-winning science writer David Baron tells the story of the enterprising scientists—among them, planet hunter James Craig Watson, pioneering astronomer Maria Mitchell, and ambitious young inventor Thomas Edison—who raced to Wyoming and Colorado in the summer of 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, to observe the first great American eclipse. Thrillingly recreating the fierce jockeying of these nineteenth-century astronomers, Baron draws on years of “exhaustive research to reconstruct a remarkable chapter of U.S. history” (Lee Billings, Scientific American), when the fate of American science still hung precariously in the balance. Now updated with an afterword that unites eclipses and eclipse-chasers past and present—revisiting the total solar eclipse of 2017 and looking forward to that of 2024—American Eclipse reveals the enduring power of these ethereal events to bring people together across space and time.
Author: John Hogue
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387471457
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Get Book Here
Book Description
BRACE YOURSELF FOR UPHEAVAL AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Total solar eclipses seem to trigger seismic events upon the lands and seas their shadows touch. On 21 August 2017, the lower 48 states had a solar eclipse draw its mysterious darkness of 90 to 100 percent totality over four of some of America's most dangerous seismic and tsunami-generating quake zones. If the pattern of seismic activity seen in the Great Eclipses of the past are repeated in the Great American Eclipse of 2017, then a series of potential major quakes of magnitude 6 to a megathrust of magnitude 9 could follow in the next 5 years. World-renowned prophecy scholar and Nostradamus expert John Hogue is author of over 1,000 articles and 46 books (1,180,000 copies sold) in 20 languages. Hogue strives to take readers "back to the present" empowering them to create a better destiny through meditation.
Author: Thomas Hockey
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303124124X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Get Book Here
Book Description
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 featuring astronomical giants like Simon Newcomb and pioneering female astronomers like Maria Mitchell—were met with unanticipated dangers, mission-threatening accidents, and eccentric characters only the West could produce. Theirs is a story of astronomical proportions. Along the way, we will make several stops across the booming US railroad network, traveling from viewing sites as familiar as Des Moines, Iowa, to ones as distant and strange as newly acquired Alaska. From equipment failures and botched preparations to quicksand and apocalyptic ‘comets’, welcome to the wild, western world of solar eclipses.
Author: John S. Skinner, Editor.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture Henrike Lange
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192857991
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Get Book Here
Book Description
A uniquely prismatic representation of total solar eclipses, this volume invites us to imagine a liberated mode of discovery, perception, creativity, and knowledge-production across the traditional academic divisions.
Author: John Hankins Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Horse-racing
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: New York (State). Legislature. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Get Book Here
Book Description
Author: Gahl Eden Sasson
Publisher: Gahl Eden Sasson
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Get Book Here
Book Description
Prepare for and plan the next 12 months with this essential astrological guide written by cosmic navigator, Gahl E. Sasson. This book is not just a collection of predictions, but a roadmap to navigate the year ahead. It provides an overview of significant astrological events, explores numerology, Tarot, history, Kabbalah, and offers guidance on harnessing Moon energy to manifest your dreams. Delve deep into a treasure trove of astrological insights, from the monumental transit of Pluto into Aquarius—a shift unseen since the days of the French Revolution—to the intricate dance of Mercury and Mars in retrograde, as well as methods to successfully navigate the eclipses. The book’s first part consists of a month-by-month list of pivotal dates and strategies to capitalize on them. The subsequent part decodes the significant astrological phenomena of 2024 and details the best dates and techniques to successfully manifest your New Year’s resolution. The final part specifies your unique mission for the year with specialized tools for each sign to utilize the peak days for love, finance, health, and creativity. Designed intuitively like a pilot’s flight manual, this guide ensures ease of reference and comprehension. This book is about self-empowerment; whether you’re an astrology aficionado or a starry-eyed beginner, “The Astrology of 2024” will be your compass to navigate the year ahead successfully.
Author: Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Get Book Here
Book Description
