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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

27 September 1824 - 26 November 1896.

[English] Benjamin Apthorp Gould (b. 1824 in Boston, Massachusetts, d. 1896 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American astronomer who founded in 1849 the “Astronomical Journal” and also worked for a long time in Argentina.

[Deutsch] Benjamin Apthorp Gould (geb. 1824 in Boston, Massachusetts; gest. 1896 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) war ein US-amerikanischer Astronom, der 1849 das „Astronomical Journal“ gründete und lange Zeit auch in Argentinien wirkte.

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  • Cover of: Sanitary memoirs of the war of the rebellion.

    First published in 1869 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Specimens of the garbling of letters by the majority of the trustees of the Dudley Observatory

    First published in 1974 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Standard mean right-ascensions of circumpolar and time stars prepared for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey.

    First published in 1862 1 edition — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The transatlantic longitude, as determined by the Coast Survey Expedition in 1866: a report to the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey

    First published in 1978 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Uranometría Argentina: brillantez y posición de las estrellas fijas, hasta la séptima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austra : con atlas

    First published in 1879 1 edition in 1 language
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Subjects
Stars, Dudley Observatory, Anthropometry, Catalogs, Clusters, History, Observations, Statistics, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Administration, Asteroids, Astronomical observatories, Dudley Observatory. Trustees, Geodesy, Health aspects, Longitude, Management, Medical care, Medicine, Military, Metric system, Military Medicine, Science, Solar eclipses, Soldiers, United States
Places
United States, Albany, Boston Harbor (Mass.), Metis (Asteroid), Neptune (Planet), New York (State)
People
Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), J. M. Gilliss (1811-1865), James Melville Gilliss (1811-1865), Joseph Stillman Hubbard, Sears Cook Walker (1805-1853)
Time
Civil War, 1861-1865, 1860

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  • Benjamin A. Gould
  • B. A. Gould
  • Gould, Benjamin Apthorp
  • Benjamin Apthorp 1824-1896 Gould

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March 27, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 10, 2011 Edited by marycee Added new photo
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import