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 440
JAMES LICK (1796-1876) Telescopes and Houses for Them 381 Uriah A. Boyden, who acquired a snug fortune ofabout 3230,000 from his inventions and improvementsin turbine water-wheels, bequeathed it all to threetrustees to establish and maintain, in conjunctionwith others, an astronomical observatory… … URIAH ATHERTOX BOYDEN (1804-1879) 1886, and the search for a suitable peak began. Inour own country, lofty elevations in Colorado andCalifornia wrere investigated, with unsatisfactory con-clusions, after which the field of search was trans-ferred to South America. The Chilean desert of Ata-cama…
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