Selina C. Bond diary, 1 Feb.- 21 Sept. 1846.

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Selina C. Bond diary, 1 Feb.- 21 Sept. 1846.

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Diary kept by teenager Selina Cranch Bond of Cambridge, Mass., 1 Feb.- 21 Sept. 1846, recording her daily activities. Includes descriptions of sunspots seen with her father astronomer William Cranch Bond at the Harvard Observatory; visits with friends in Cambridge and her cousin William Bond; attending church and school; doing homework; sewing; and the weather.

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Harvard College Observatory

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In 1839, the Harvard Corporation appointed William Cranch Bond the first Astronomical Observer to the University, thereby taking the first step in establishing the Harvard College Observatory, after which the first telescope was installed in 1847. Scholars and students had studied astronomy at Harvard since the seventeenth century, but it wasn’t until a large comet sparked public interest in 1843 that donors began donating funds to build an observatory. During the tenure of the Harvar...

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Bond, Selina Cranch, b. 1832.

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