David Baron (2) (1964–)
Autor von American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World
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David Baron, an award-winning journalist, is the author of The Beast in the Garden and a former science correspondent for NPR. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. www.amcrican.eclipse.com.
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- David Baron is a journalist, author, and broadcaster who has spent his thirty-year career largely in public radio. He has worked as an environment correspondent for NPR, a science reporter for Boston's WBUR, and health and science editor for PRI’s The World.
His 2003 book, The Beast in the Garden, received the Colorado Book Award. David lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Describing the rising eclipse fever in the days leading up to its crossing in July 1878, Baron writes, “In their workaday lives, the people of Denver, like those of the rest of America, spent most of their time with their heads down, focused on earthly affairs of commerce and production, but even this go-ahead city saw reason to pause for what was about to happen overhead. ‘Many persons went down to their graves at the ripe old age of three score and ten, without witnessing so sublime a spectacle in nature as a total obscuration of the sun’s disk by the moon,’ wrote a local correspondent in the Rocky Mountain News” (p. 125).
Baron concludes, “The accumulation of scientific knowledge does not occur in a simple, linear fashion. Doctrines embraced in one generation are jettisoned the next. Seemingly productive avenues of research abruptly dead-end. Scientific discoveries and events acclaimed in their day fade into obscurity with the passage of time. Such is the case with the total solar eclipse of 1878” (p. 233). Further, “Even before the eclipse, the United States was fast on its way to becoming a formidable scientific power. It is fair to say, however, that the celestial event helped push the country toward that destination, and not solely because it inspired and educated a broad American public” (p. 234).
Baron’s thoroughly researched account begins with an examination of other historic eclipses, particularly during the Enlightenment, before tracing the events immediately leading up to the eclipse of 1878. He dramatizes these events in such a way that they come alive for his reader, with the climax of his narrative shifting perspectives during totality in order to describe what it meant to each of the people whose narratives he follows. American Eclipse is a first-rate work of science history that non-historians and non-scientists alike may read. It takes on added interest with the upcoming eclipse of 2024.… (mehr)