On Dec. 16, 1857, Edward Emerson Barnard was born in Nashville, Tennessee. His beginnings were humble. Raised in poverty, a condition exacerbated by the Civil War and the occupation of Nashville, Barnard survived cholera and received almost no education. Instead, it was the job he began at age 9, as a photographer’s assistant, that would Continue reading "Dec. 16, 1857: The birth of Edward E. Barnard" The post Dec. 16, 1857: The birth of Edward E. Barnard appeared first on Astronomy Magazine .