Titlebook: America’s First Eclipse Chasers; Stories of Science, Thomas Hockey Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclus

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State-Variables-Averaging MethodI so far have described total eclipses of the Sun as if they were mere intersections of dots on the Celestial Sphere. Much more than that, I am convinced that they are the most . occurrence in our sky anyone is likely to see.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1570-7The Sun was . Simon Newcomb’s principal target during the 1869 total eclipse of the Sun. If this book were fiction, I might write that he was on a ‘secret mission, the Moon’s position as a function of time only a cover story. In reality, he made little effort to disguise his true quest. He simply understated its importance to him.

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Anna Boisits,Matthias SchelnastBenjamin Peirce called the United States of 1869, “… an intelligent population greatly interested in the scientific aspects of the event [eclipse], and ready to render aid in procuring the desired results.” Indeed, we have seen locals eagerly standing ready to assist visiting astronomers on their quest.

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Anna Boisits,Matthias SchelnastAnother large swath of the Earth experienced the total solar eclipse of 1869. However, the record in all but extreme-eastern Asia is silent and dark. Searches in Arabic and Cyrillic yield nothing. Countless people must have awoken to the sight that 8 August 1869. We may never know their story.

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2: A Trans-American Eclipse,“Arrive[d] at Des Moines at 10 o’clock.” (diary entry)

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,3: #x201C;Some Light upon This Dark Subject”,On 6 August 1869, with a total eclipse of the Sun to occur in the local sky the next day, a local newspaper printed, “All of our readers, of course, know that an eclipse is an obscuration of one of the heavenly bodies by the interposition of another . . .” Did they? This is politic, but as unlikely to have been true then as it is today.

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8: Meeting of the Grayhairs,“In the halls of the hotels we saw meetings between friends long separate, and heard joyous exclamations as grayhaired men met and shook hands and laughed, that neither could recognize in the middle aged other the youth whom he had left, and whom he had since known only through scientific journals.”