Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 388
hester, Massachusetts, and Yale College had in1832 a s-inch portable telescope of Fraunhofersmake, the first American observatory, intended for per-manent occupation as such, was erected at Chapel Hill,North Carolina, in the years 1831-32. Few observa-tions were, however, made there; it was soon… … RITTENHOUSE (1732-1796) 330 Stars and Telescopes society of Cincinnati and ordered from Merz andMahler, of Munich, the successors of Fraunhofer,a 12-inch refractor. By his successful tours as apopular lecturer Mitchel aroused great enthusiasmfor astronomical knowledge, and to his forceful…
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