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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition

Collection Identifier: UAV 630.349
Overview: In the mid-nineteenth century, the Chronometric Expedition was carried out by the Harvard College Observatory, under the direction of William Cranch Bond and in conjunction with the United States Coast Survey. The expedition used chronometers that were made by William Bond & Son, the Bond family's private business, to determine differences of longitude between the observatories in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Liverpool, England. The records primarily consist of notebooks, data sheets,...

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond

Collection Identifier: UAV 630.6
Overview: The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer,...

Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond

Collection Identifier: UAV 630.2
Overview: The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond document the founding, growth, and scientific research of the Harvard College Observatory primarily from 1840 to 1859. Also chronicled is the Observatory’s participation in advances made in astronomy, stellar photography, meteorology, continental exploration, and technological improvements in astronomical instruments in the early nineteenth century. William Cranch Bond (1789-1859), American astronomer and instrument...

Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, 1906-2005

Collection Identifier: MC 529
Overview:

Papers of Dorrit Hoffleit, astronomer at Harvard and Yale Universities and at the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket.

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Astronomy -- History. 3
Chronometers. 3
Correspondence. 3
Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 3
Time measurements. 3
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Amateur astronomy. 2
Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 2
Astronomical photography. 2
Astronomical photometry. 2
Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
Astronomy -- Research. 2
Chronograph. 2
Diaries 2
Financial records. 2
Occultations. 2
Photographs 2
Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
Stars -- Clusters. 2
Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
Variable stars. 2
Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
Account books. 1
Aging--United States 1
Annual reports. 1
Asteroids--Orbits. 1
Asteroids. 1
Astrometry 1
Astronomers 1
Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
Astronomy 1
Astronomy -- Observations. 1
Astronomy. 1
Auroras--Spectra. 1
Auroras. 1
Autobiographies 1
Comets--Orbits. 1
Comets. 1
Donati comet. 1
Drawings 1
Emigration and immigration 1
Geodesy -- Observations 1
Geodesy. 1
Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
Horology. 1
Immigrants' writings, German 1
Lecture notes 1
Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
Magnetic fields. 1
Magnetism. 1
Manuscripts (documents) 1
Manuscripts for publication 1
Memoirs 1
Meteorology -- Observations 1
Meteorology. 1
Meteors -- Orbits 1
Meteors. 1
Mothers and daughters--United States 1
Nantucket (Mass.) 1
Nebulae. 1
Obituaries 1
Older women--United States 1
Orion Nebula 1
Planets--Brightness. 1
Planets--Orbits. 1
Planets. 1
Poems 1
Refracting telescopes. 1
Scientists 1
Scientists--United States 1
Telegraph. 1
Telescopes. 1
Variable stars -- Spectra 1
Variable stars--Catalogs 1
Women astronomers--United States 1
World War, 1939-1945--Women 1
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