Abstract
Most of the ideas that have historically influenced Western world views have come from areas around the Mediterranean Sea, Continental Europe, and the British Isles. Likewise, most of the observational and theoretical discoveries in the 18th and 19th Centuries that characterized and expanded our notion of the solar system were made in these areas. As a new country, the United States lagged behind in observational and theoretical astronomy. However, things were happening in early America that led the United States onto the world stage in the late 1800s. Let’s trace this development.
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Mendillo, De Vorkin, and Berendzen, Astronomy, vol. 4(7), p. 23.
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Malpas, GardenStateLegacy.com, vol. l(September), pp. 1-4.
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Ibid.
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Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, p. 15.
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Johnston, Celestial Images, p. 54.
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Bell, Sky & Telescope, June 2Oll,pp. 28-29.
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Ibid., p. 29.
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Ibid., pp. 28-33.
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Ibid., p. 29.
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Kanas, N. (2014). Popularizing the Solar System in the Early United States. In: Solar System Maps. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0896-3_9
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