LEADER 03789nam 22006495 450 001 9910409990703321 005 20220426175024.0 010 $a3-030-46538-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-46538-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000011325680 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6247259 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-46538-4 035 $a(PPN)248596977 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011325680 100 $a20200629d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas $eA Belgian Astronomer Caught in the American Civil War /$fby Christiaan Sterken, Amy Abercrombie King 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (165 pages) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 311 $a3-030-46536-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I Jean-Charles Houzeau: His work, his travels and his letters.-Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie.-San Antonio in Houzeau?s times -- The nature and literary quality of Houzeau?s work, and of its translations -- Explanatory remarks -- Part II Appendix: Selected letters and transcripts of official documents -- Transcription of official Texas documents -- Transcription of official letters -- Part III Jean-Charles Houzeau?s White Terror in Texas -- Foreword -- Letter I. 330 $aTranslated from the original French and annotated with figures, historical maps and commentary from the translators, this work is Jean-Charles Houzeau's account of his escape from Texas during the American Civil War. Houzeau was a Belgian astronomer who worked a couple of years as assistant astronomer at the Brussels Observatory, but eventually moved to the United States. He was living as a frontierman in Texas when the Civil War broke out, and because he took an abolitionist stance and helped slaves escape, he was forced to flee to Mexico, from where he sailed to New Orleans on board of a US military vessel. Originally titled La terreur blanche au Texas et mon 'evasion, Houzeau captured the details of his escape in 1862. The editors, an astronomer and a French language teacher, have added supplementary material to give the readers more depth and historical context to the story. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0613 606 $aPhysics 606 $aHistory 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aAstrophysics 606 $aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000 606 $aUS History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/718010 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P22006 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aAstrophysics. 615 14$aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. 615 24$aUS History. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aAstronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. 676 $a070.410924 700 $aSterken$b Christiaan$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0843170 702 $aKing$b Amy Abercrombie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910409990703321 996 $aJean-Charles Houzeau's Escape from Texas$92080726 997 $aUNINA