Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914)
Auteur van The Sciences
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Fotografie: Edward S. Holden [source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division]
Werken van Edward Singleton Holden
Essays In Astronomy By Ball, Harkness, Herschel, Huggins, Laplace, Mitchel, Proctor, Schiaparelli, And Others (1900) (2008) 3 exemplaren
Stories of the Great Astronomers: Conversations with a Child. Appleton's Home Reading Books (1900) 2 exemplaren
Flowers from Persian Gardens: Selections from the Poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyám, and Others (2010) 2 exemplaren
Mountaintop Observatories in America and Europe 1 exemplaar
The Family of the Sun 1 exemplaar
The Mogul emperors of Hindustan, 1398-1707 1 exemplaar
Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion (R.A. 5h 28m 24s.O, N.P.D. 952910.9, 1860.0) (2016) 1 exemplaar
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- Geboortedatum
- 1846-11-05
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1914-03-16
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- West Point, New York, USA
- Beroepen
- astronomer
mathematician
librarian - Organisaties
- United States Naval Observatory
Washburn Observatory
University of Wisconsin
University of California
Lick Observatory
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (toon alle 7)
United States Military Academy - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- asteroid namesake (872 Holda)
crater on moon named in his honor
crater on Mars named in his honor
National Academy of Sciences - Korte biografie
- Holden wrote many books on popular science (and on other subjects, such as flags and heraldry), including science books intended for children.
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It's what it is - a summary of the great man life and works of Sir WILLIAM HERSCHEL, I have obliged my self to depend strictly activity and scientific writings and the memoirs and diaries of his cotemporaries. The review of his published works will, I trust, be of use. It is based upon a careful study of all his papers in the not as Philosophical Transactions is really best aimed at historians of the scientific method like very pleasant to read and detailed so I retreated to this book for a more realistic, appealing experience.… (meer)