Eclipses, Transits, and Comets of the Nineteenth Century How America's Perception of the Skies Changed /

• Main Authors: Cottam, Stella (Author), Orchiston, Wayne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 406
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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...

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.