After a wartime career as a physicist, Bob Rothschild, Harvard '39, has pursued a lifetime interest in the history of science, especially astronomy, while simultaneously managing his own business. ...voir plusAfter a wartime career as a physicist, Bob Rothschild, Harvard '39, has pursued a lifetime interest in the history of science, especially astronomy, while simultaneously managing his own business. A part-time resident of Islesboro, Maine, he became involved in a 1980 Harvard re-creation of Samuel Williams's historic expedition to observe the 1780 solar eclipse and found controversial anomalies that led to his study of Williams's life and to this book.voir moins