Author: Isaac Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The Virginia Almanack, Or Ephemeris: for the Year of Our Lord, 1801;
The Good Old Virginia Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord, 1801
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printers' advertisements
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printers' advertisements
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Virginia Almanack, Or Ephemeris: for the Year of Our Lord, 1799
The Virginia Almanack Or Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1798
Author: Samuel Pleasants (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Virginia Almanack, Or, The Winchester Ephemeris
Author: Richard Bowen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Virginia Almanack, Or Ephemeris: for the Year of Our Lord, --1799 ; --
The Virginia Almanack, Or, Southern Ephemeris; for the Year of Our Lord, 1799
Bannaker's Maryland and Virginia Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord 1797 ...
Star Territory
Author: Gordon Fraser
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812297903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The United States has been a space power since its founding, Gordon Fraser writes. The white stars on its flag reveal the dream of continental elites that the former colonies might constitute a "new constellation" in the firmament of nations. The streets and avenues of its capital city were mapped in reference to celestial observations. And as the nineteenth century unfolded, all efforts to colonize the North American continent depended upon the science of surveying, or mapping with reference to celestial movement. Through its built environment, cultural mythology, and exercise of military power, the United States has always treated the cosmos as a territory available for exploitation. In Star Territory Fraser explores how from its beginning, agents of the state, including President John Adams, Admiral Charles Henry Davis, and astronomer Maria Mitchell, participated in large-scale efforts to map the nation onto cosmic space. Through almanacs, maps, and star charts, practical information and exceptionalist mythologies were transmitted to the nation's soldiers, scientists, and citizens. This is, however, only one part of the story Fraser tells. From the country's first Black surveyors, seamen, and publishers to the elected officials of the Cherokee Nation and Hawaiian resistance leaders, other actors established alternative cosmic communities. These Black and indigenous astronomers, prophets, and printers offered ways of understanding the heavens that broke from the work of the U.S. officials for whom the universe was merely measurable and exploitable. Today, NASA administrators advocate public-private partnerships for the development of space commerce while the military seeks to control strategic regions above the atmosphere. If observers imagine that these developments are the direct offshoots of a mid-twentieth-century space race, Fraser brilliantly demonstrates otherwise. The United States' efforts to exploit the cosmos, as well as the resistance to these efforts, have a history that starts nearly two centuries before the Gemini and Apollo missions of the 1960s.