Shooting the Sun
Title | Shooting the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Max Byrd |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2003-12-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0553898736 |
Charles Babbage was an English genius of legendary eccentricity. He invented the cowcatcher, the ophthalmoscope, and the “penny post.” He was an expert lock picker, he wrote a ballet, he pursued a vendetta against London organ-grinders that made him the laughingstock of Europe. And all his life he was in desperate need of enormous sums of money to build his fabled reasoning machine, the Difference Engine, the first digital computer in history. To publicize his Engine, Babbage sponsors a private astronomical expedition—a party of four men and one remarkable woman—who will set out from Washington City and travel by wagon train two thousand miles west, beyond the last known outposts of civilization. Their ostensible purpose is to observe a total eclipse of the sun predicted by Babbage’s computer, and to photograph it with the newly invented camera of Louis Daguerre. The actual purpose, however… Suffice it to say that in Shooting the Sun nothing is what it seems, eclipses have minds of their own, and even the best computer cannot predict treachery, greed, and the fickle passions of the human heart.
Shooting the Sun
Title | Shooting the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Max Byrd |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0553583697 |
Inspired by Charles Babbage, who believes that his Difference Engine can calculate the longitude of a solar eclipse, astronomer Selena Cott invents a technique to photograph it and embarks on a dangerous journey into the American Southwest.
A Shooter at the Sun
Title | A Shooter at the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Toyohiko Kagawa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Japan |
ISBN |
Shooting at the Sun
Title | Shooting at the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Thunder |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Arrow to the Sun
Title | Arrow to the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald McDermott |
Publisher | Perfection Learning |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1977-02 |
Genre | Folk literature, Pueblo |
ISBN | 9780812401028 |
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth that explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
Shooting Into the Sun
Title | Shooting Into the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Rettstatt |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Man-woman relationships |
ISBN | 9781926681214 |
The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space
Title | The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Eddy |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780160838088 |
" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.