Report on gravity at the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell, circa 1889.

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Report on gravity at the Smithsonian, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell, circa 1889.

Peirce's work as assistant to the superintendent of the Coast and Geodetic Survey on the distribution of intensities of gravity at four different geographic locations in the United States.

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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914

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Charles Sanders Peirce was an American logician, mathematician, philosopher, and scientist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Peirce was educated as a chemist and employed as a scientist for 30 years, but is appreciated largely by his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, and semiotics (and his founding of pragmatism). Peirce was intermittently employed in various scientific capacities by the United States Coast Survey between 1859 and 1891. From the description of Charles...