Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 434
jamf.s lick (1796-1S76) Telescopes and Houses for Them 381 Uriah A. Boyden, who acquired a snug fortune ofabout $230,000 from his inventions and improvementsin turbine water-wheels, bequeathed it all to threetrustees to establish and maintain, in conjunctionwith others, an astronomical observatory… … URIAH ATHERTON BOYDEN (1804-1879) 1886, and the search for a suitable peak began. Inour own country, lofty elevations in Colorado andCalifornia were investigated, with unsatisfactory con-clusions, after which the field of search was trans-ferred to South America. The Chilean desert of Ata-cama was…
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