Jean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas: A Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War

by Amy Abercrombie King and Christiaan Sterken

Translated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030465365
• ISBN13: 9783030465360
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"