Elites in Conflict: The Antebellum Clash Over the Dudley ObservatoryThe Antebellum Clash Over the Dudley Observatory |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Albany | 18 |
A Scientific Elite Comes to Albany | 29 |
Copyright | |
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ADB to BP Albany Atlas Albany observatory Alexander Dallas Bache American Philosophical Society antebellum April Armsby Atlas and Argus August authority Bache's Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Gould Benjamin Peirce Board of Trustees BP to ADB bring the observatory Brünnow C. H. F. Peters Cambridge Coast Survey conflict December Defence of Dr described director Dudley Observatory elite Erastus Corning friends funds George Bond Harvard Observatory heliometer Hillyer History Howell Cobb insisted instruments J. V. L. Pruyn James Hall January Joseph Henry Journal of J. V. L. July Lazzaroni longitude March ment meridian circle Mitchel nineteenth century observations October pamphlet Peters's political professional questions quoted in Albany quoted in Gould refused Reingold Rensselaer Reply Scientific Council scientific institutions scientists secretary September 1858 servatory Smithsonian Institution Spencer Statement telescopes Thacher Thomas Olcott tion trus Washington William Cranch Bond Winslow Wolcott Gibbs wrote York State Library