Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, 1845-1865

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Records of the Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, 1845-1865

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The Records of Harvard College Observatory Director George Phillips Bond, consisting of correspondence and subject files, manuscript drafts, and astronomical data, chiefly document the research activities of the Harvard College Observatory from 1859 to 1865. Chronicled are observations of planets, including Mars and Jupiter; efforts to determine the brightness of stars; and the detection of comets, eclipses, and other astronomical phenomena. George Phillips Bond (1825-1865), an astronomer, was the director of the Harvard College Observatory and Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard from 1859 to 1865.

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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...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Bond, William Cranch, 1789-1859

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Bond, George Phillips, 1825-1865

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Bond (Harvard, Class of 1845) was director of the Harvard College Observatory. From the description of Papers of George Phillips Bond, 1851-1865 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76972763 ...