Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States Chasing Southern Stars, 1903-1929 /

• Main Author: Silva, Bárbara K. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
• Subjects: History.; America-History.; Civilization-History.; World history.; History of Science.; History of the Americas.; Cultural History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

This Palgrave Pivot tells the transnational story of the astronomical observatory in the hills near Santiago, Chile, built in the early twentieth century through the efforts of astronomers from the Lick Observatory in California. Venturing abroad to learn from largely unmapped Southern skies and, ho...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Look Up to Southern Stars
• 2. Preparing the Mills Expedition
• 3. The Astronomers' Arrival and Challenges of Getting Settled in Chile
• 4. The Americans Want to Stay
• 5. Changing Years for the Mills Expedition
• 6. Epilogue: Transnational Mirrors for the Stars.