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Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
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out. On May 29, IS61 just weeks after the American Civil War began at Fort Sumter Peters cliscoverec!
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Young Peters pursued his studies under Gauss, but his chief association at Gottingen was with a young geologist, Sartorius von Walterhausen, with whom he traveler! to Sicily.
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out for this object was wiclely in error, en c! with the exception of a single inclepenclent sighting by Francesco cle Vico at Rome, it was not observer!
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Messina. Peters's tumultuous Sicilian adventure came to an enc!
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in what direction, cannot be cleciclec! in the present state of our knowlecige of the Sun." DUDLEY OBSERVATORY The AAAS meeting macle Peters well known in America en c!
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to accurately measure apparent diameters of the Sun. At the time there was no heliometer at the Coast Survey, which was by Act of Congress prevented from establishing an observatory of its own.
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for a facility that, in aciclition to proclucing results valuable to science, wouIc! serve as a means of "attracting, enlisting, en c!
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In his own expressive language, 'the skies knew him."' Under pressure from Bache and Gould, Peters resigned his position at the Coast Survey it had paid only $540 per year, too little to live on. However, at the trustees' behest, he stayed on briefly in an apartment of Dudley Observatory, waiting like Dickens's Micawber for something better to turn up.
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until Tong after his cleath (they eventually appearec! as Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1869 to 1870 (1907)
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at Hamilton College, en c! complainer!
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been enclorsec! by the leacling theoretical astronomer, Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier of France.
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"not go on a wile! goose chase after Le Verrier's mythical bircis." THE TRANSIT TO VENUS Peters again escaped provincial life at Hamilton College in IS74, when he traveler!
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He hac! spent, in all, a full year "tumbling about in distant countries." Almost at once on returning to Hamilton College, he openec!
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In the Uniter! States the path of totality swept from Yellowstone National Park and the Wind River Range in Wyoming Territory, down the front range of the Rockies through Boulder, Denver, and Pikes Peak, then across Oklahoma Indian Territory into Texas en c!
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Simon Newcomb was clispatchec! to the railroac!
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The first twenty charts were publisher! as Celestial Charts Made at the Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton College in ISS2, but he never publisher!
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as his counsel one of the most prominent lawyers in New York, Elihu Root (Hamilton College class of 1867) , the son of Peters's close friend, Hamilton mathematician Oren Root.
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The mill of legal proceedings ground on after his death (Borst's appeal to the New York Supreme Court was heart! in September 1892, by a verdict of two to one, the Supreme Court in Root v.
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Beginning with Max Wolf's discovery of 323 Brucia in 1891, the application of mass-production photographic methods to the search for minor planets trivializes! the labor on which Peters hac!
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In finally completing it, I warmly acknowledge the help of Press, Donald E Osterbrock, and Dorothy Schaumberg of the Shane archives of the Lick Observatory, Richard Baum, and Luigi Prestinenza.
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1858. The Dudley Observatory and the Scientific Council, Statement of the Trustees.
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94:321-40. 1882 Celestial Charts Made at the Litchfield Observatory of Hamilton College.
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U.S. Government Heliographic Positions of Sun Spots Observed at Hamilton College from 1860 to 1870.
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312 160 Una 165 Loreley 166 Rhodope 167 Urcia 176 Iduna 185 188 Menippe Phthia Ismena Kolga 194 Procne 196 Philomena 199 Byblis Eunice BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS February 20, 1876 August 9, 1876 August 15, 1876 August 28, 1876 October 14, 1877 March 1, 1878 June 18, 1878 September 9, 1878 September 22, 1878 September 30, 1878 March 21, 1879 May 14, 1879 July 9, 1879 200 Dynamene July 27, 1879 202 Chryseis September 11, 1879 203 Pompeia September 25, 1879 206 Hersilia October 13, 1879 209 213 234 249 259 Dido Lilaea Barbara Ilse ATetheia Prymno Libussa Anahita Nephthys October 22, 1879 February 17, 1880 August 12, 1880 August 16, 1883 June 28, 1886 October 31, 1886 December 17, 1886 October 8, 1887 August 25, 1889
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