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Benjamin Apthorp Gould

[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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American astronomer (1824–1896)

Born	27 September 1824
Died	26 November 1896.

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Ancestry and Posterity of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield: A Condensed Abstract of the Family Records

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1872 — 5 editions

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Eulogy on Joseph S. Hubbard.

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould
First published in 1864 — 3 editions
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Reply to the "Statement of the trustees" of the Dudley Observatory

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1859 — 3 editions
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An address in commemoration of Alexander Dallas Bache: delivered August 6, 1868, before the American Association for the Advancement of Science

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1868 — 2 editions

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Biographical notice of James Melville Gilliss

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1867 — 2 editions
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Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers.

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1972 — 2 editions

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War thoughts of an optimist: a collection of timely articles by an American citizen residing in Canada

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1915 — 2 editions
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Who withholds cooperation?: correspondence between the Officers of the Board of Trustees of the Dudley Observatory and the Director of the same institution

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1858 — 2 editions

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Report on the history of the discovery of Neptune.

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1850 — 2 editions
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An American university: an oration before the Connecticut Beta of the Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity at Trinity College, Hartford, 1856, July 15

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1856 — 1 edition
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Boston harbour: a series of communications to the Boston daily advertiser

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1863 — 1 edition
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Cordoba photographs.: Photographic observations of star-clusters from impressions made at the Argentine national observatory, measured and computed with aid from Argentine Government

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1897 — 1 edition
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Observations of the solar eclipse of July 18, 1860, made at Cambridge, Massachusetts

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1862 — 1 edition

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Reduction of photographic observations of the Præsepe

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1888 — 1 edition

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Reduction of the observations of fixed stars made by Joseph d'Agelet, at Paris, in 1783-1785, with a catalogue of the corresponding mean places, referred to the equinox of 1800.

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1866 — 1 edition

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Relations of the man of science to the community: address to the American Association for the advancement of science

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1869 — 1 edition
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Specimens of the garbling of letters by the majority of the trustees of the Dudley Observatory

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1974 — 1 edition

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Standard mean right-ascensions of circumpolar and time stars prepared for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey.

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1862 — 1 edition
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Uranometría Argentina: brillantez y posición de las estrellas fijas, hasta la séptima magnitud, comprendidas dentro de cien grados del polo austra : con atlas

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1879 — 1 edition

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences, January 1849: Dr. B.A. Gould, Jr., presented a discussion of the observations of the planet Metis

by Benjamin Apthorp Gould First published in 1849 — 1 edition

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American astronomer (1824–1896)

Born	27 September 1824
Died	26 November 1896.

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ID Numbers

OLID: OL162699A
ISNI: 0000000061315517
Library of Congress Names: n79059859
VIAF: 27831883
Wikidata: Q520915
Inventaire.io: wd:Q520915

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

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