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Harvard College Observatory observations, logs, instrument readings, and calculations
Collection Identifier: KG11365-6Scope and Contents:
This collection contains over 2500 logbooks and notebooks produced by the Harvard Computers and early Harvard astronomers, many of which feature datasets and processing observations relating to the HCO’s collection of astronomical glass plate photographs. The Harvard Computers were a team of women who worked for the Harvard College Observatory under the supervision of Director Edward Charles Pickering (1877-1919). Notable women include: Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury,...
Records of the Harvard College Observatory Chronometric Expedition
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Harvard University Archives
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 William Cranch Bond
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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...
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- Repository
- Harvard University Archives 2
- Wolbach Archives, Wolbach Library, Harvard University 1
- Subject
- Astronomers -- United States. 2
- Astronomy -- 19th century. 2
- Astronomy -- History. 2
- Chronometers. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History. 2
- Time measurements. 2
- Variable stars. 2
- Account books. 1
- Amateur astronomy. 1
- Annual reports. 1
- Asteroids. 1
- Astronomical clocks -- United States. 1
- Astronomical instruments -- Design and construction. 1
- Astronomical observatories -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge. 1
- Astronomical photography. 1
- Astronomical photometry. 1
- Astronomy -- Observations. 1
- Astronomy -- Research. 1
- Astronomy. 1
- Auroras. 1
- Chronograph. 1
- Comets. 1
- Diaries 1
- Financial records. 1
- Geodesy. 1
- Harvard College Observatory (Cambridge, MA) 1
- Harvard University -- Astronomy 1
- Horology. 1
- Magnetic fields. 1
- Magnetism. 1
- Meteorology. 1
- Meteors. 1
- Nebulae. 1
- Occultations. 1
- Photographs 1
- Planets. 1
- Scientific apparatus and instruments. 1
- Solar eclipses -- Observations. 1
- Stars -- Clusters. 1
- Surveying -- Geodetic. 1
- Telegraph. 1
- Telescopes. 1
- Women in astronomy -- History. 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865. 2
- Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859 2
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 2
- United States Coast Survey 2
- Bond, Richard Fifield, 1827-1866 1
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