Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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
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...
Transit Instrument, 1860-01-23/1860-06-23 Digital
FOUND IN:
Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University
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Collection:
Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
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Series:
Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations
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File:
A1-74: Meridian Circle Observations
Item — Box 1Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0033
Scope and Contents:
This series contains astronomical observations and data calculations spanning the early history of the Harvard College Observatory from 1848 until 1877, though most materials date to the subsequent directorships of H.C.O. founder William Cranch Bond and then his son George Phillips Bond prior to his death 1866. Astronomers whose work is represented in this series include: William Cranch Bond, George Phillips Bond, Richard F. Bond, Benjamin Pierce, Charles W. Tuttle, Horace P....
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- Astronomical photometry. 2
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Astronomy -- Research. 2
- Chronograph. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Financial records. 2
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 2
- Occultations. 2
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 2
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 2
- Stars -- Clusters. 2
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 2
- Time measurements. 2
- Account books. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids--Orbits. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
- Auroras--Spectra. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Comets--Orbits. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Donati comet. 1
- Geodesy -- Observations 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Horology. 1
- Magnetic fields -- Measurement 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Manuscripts (documents) 1
- Meteorology -- Observations 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors -- Orbits 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Orion Nebula 1
- Photographs 1
- Planets--Brightness. 1
- Planets--Orbits. 1
- Planets. 1
- Refracting telescopes. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Variable stars -- Spectra 1
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