Report on the distribution of intensities of gravity at the Smithsonian Institution, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell University, 1889.

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Report on the distribution of intensities of gravity at the Smithsonian Institution, Ann Arbor, Madison, and Cornell University, 1889.

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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. Included is a reprint of an article by Victor F. Lenzen: An Unpublished Scientific Monograph by C. S. Peirce (1969) in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, V. l.

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American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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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...