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It was July 1869, and astronomers were making frantic preparations. A total solar eclipse was coming to the United States, and new, fundamental knowledge was going to be there for the taking, by whoever got there first. Scientific expeditions were planned to travel into the path of totality to peer at the Sun, and the rare sight of its ghostly, pale outer atmosphere.

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