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Early Work of the HCO under the Bond Adminstrations, 1848-1877, bulk: 1848-1866
Series Identifier: KG11365-6Scope 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....
Equatorial, 1858-11-11/1859-05-04 Digital
Item — Box 5Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0183Scope 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....
Equatorial, 1860-01-31/1860-03-15 Digital
Item — Box 5Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0186Scope 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....
Equatorial, 1860-03-15/1860-03-30 Digital
Item — Box 5Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0187Scope 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....
Equatorial, Volume 3, 1855-01-13/1856-04-01 Digital
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0173Scope and Contents:
Observations: Saturn; Occultation of 19 Cancri by the Moon; Occultation of Uranus; Procyon; Occultation of Venus; Occultation of 46 Leonis; Personal Equation between W.C.B. and P.S.C.; Jupiter; Conjunction of Satellites; Neptune; Venus; Mars; Stars in the vicinity of Procyon; Ephemeris of de Vico Comet for 1855.Newspaper cutting pasted onto inner back cover: Nantucket Inquirer; Friday, Dec. 14, 1855: Letter to the Editor on discovery of a cometImages: Jupiter; Saturn;...
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-01-01/1856-04-21 Digital
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0146Scope and Contents:
Comparisons by 12MT- Comparators -1107 and 1508; Comparison of chronometers with MTC - by aid of 6hr; Comparisons with comparator No. 1508; 1855 June 5th Last comparison before embarcation; Direct comparisons; Comparison of chronometer Thomas Adams No 3585;Comparator Y (No. 1107 -)(copied from the paper found in the top); Sidereal Chronometer No. 3585; Errors of Chronometers on Greenwich M.S.T.; Notes documenting return of specific chronometers following examination; Direct comparison of...
Sidereal and Mean Time Clocks, 1856-07-02/1857-02-27 Digital
Item — Box 4Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0148Scope and Contents:
Questions propounded by Mr Briggs, relative to his clock with a circulating pendulum; Comparison of sidereal clock with that containing Briggs patent circulating pendulum; recorded chronometer timings; Lieut. Ives set up his transit instrument on the stand of our variation-transit and obtained the following y E.C. and the Spring-governor.; Result, time to be given 4 1/2 seconds sooner at Cambridge than the bells at Boston should strike.
Transit Circle, 1857-09-21/1857-11-03 Digital
Item — Box 1Identifier: KG11365-6, phaedra0027Scope 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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- Subject
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 2
- Names
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 4
- Hall, , Asaph, III, 1829-1907 4
- Bond, Richard Fifield, 1827-1866 3
- Safford, Truman Henry, 1836-1901 3
- Tuttle, Charles Wesley, 1829-1881 3
- Tuttle, Horace Parnell, 1837-1923 2
- Harvard College Observatory 1
- Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906 1
- Pierce, Benjamin. 1
- Rogers, William A. (William Augustus), 1832-1898 1
- Searle, G. M. (George Mary), 1839-1918 1
- Trouvelot, E. L. (Etienne Leopold), 1827-1895 1
- Winlock, Joseph, 1826-1875 1 ∧ less
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