Lot n° 158
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120 - 150
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GOULD Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896). Astronome américain, né - Lot 158
GOULD Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896). Astronome américain, né à Boston, considéré comme un des pionniers pour l'utilisation de la photographie en astronomie. LAS adressée de Cambridge le 6 février 1870, au Professeur Foerster "Bruhus's memoir of Encke reached me a few weeks ago, and I have been reading it with a good deal of pleasure ... circumstances have placed it in my power to undertake an astronomical expedition to the Southern Hemisphere ... with the view of founding a permanent observatory & of completing the zone - catalogue ... May I ask of your kihdness information as to the clocks now made by Tiede ... what form of chronograph is most in use ... in Germany.". 4 pages in-8.
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