Harvard College Observatory
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director William Cranch Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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
FOUND IN:
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
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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- Subject
- Aberdeen Proving Ground (Md.) 1
- Account books. 1
- Aging--United States 1
- Amateur astronomy. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astrometry 1
- Astronomers 1
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 1
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomical photography. 1
- Astronomical photometry. 1
- Astronomy 1
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 1
- Astronomy -- History. 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Autobiographies 1
- Chronograph. 1
- Chronometers. 1
- Comets. 1
- Correspondence. 1
- Drawings 1
- Emigration and immigration 1
- Financial records. 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Horology. 1
- Immigrants' writings, German 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts for publication 1
- Memoirs 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors. 1
- Mothers and daughters--United States 1
- Nantucket (Mass.) 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Obituaries 1
- Occultations. 1
- Older women--United States 1
- Planets. 1
- Poems 1
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 1
- Scientists 1
- Scientists--United States 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Stars -- Clusters. 1
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Time measurements. 1
- Variable stars--Catalogs 1
- Variable stars. 1
- Women astronomers--United States 1
- World War, 1939-1945--Women 1 ∧ less
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