Osterbrock, 2002 - Google Patents
America's First Carl Sagan: Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Pre-Civil War Astronomer and Lecturer on the CosmosOsterbrock, 2002
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- Osterbrock D
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- American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts
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In the years before television, videos, radio. movies, or even loudspeakers, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel (1809-1862) was the best-known popularizer of astronomy and the scientific study of the universe in nineteenth-century America. Each winter he traveled the …
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