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GOULD Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896), American astronomer L.A.S. to Professor Foerster, Cambridge, March 16, 1866. 4 pp. in-8. In English, some tears at folds. A beautiful letter from Gould, who traveled extensively in Europe, in which he discusses the American struggle for freedom and his work to promote science, "the struggles and sufferings in defending her existence [] and removing in the only possible way THE INIQUITY OF SLAVERY which impeded our moral and intellectual growth [] my share for building up the edifice of american science[]". He goes on at length about his colleagues Eucke, Bache, Rutherford "working with him in New York, on his PHOTOGRAPHIE METHODS [] the impressions of stars to the 81/2 magnitude with white light []". He also announces a major publication: "An edition of the standard places of fixed stars [] the results of four years observations at Washington []". GOULD created the Astronomical Journal and discovered the Gould Belt (1879).

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GOULD Benjamin Apthorp (1824-1896), American astronomer L.A.S. to Professor Foerster, Cambridge, March 16, 1866. 4 pp. in-8. In English, some tears at folds. A beautiful letter from Gould, who traveled extensively in Europe, in which he discusses the American struggle for freedom and his work to promote science, "the struggles and sufferings in defending her existence [] and removing in the only possible way THE INIQUITY OF SLAVERY which impeded our moral and intellectual growth [] my share for building up the edifice of american science[]". He goes on at length about his colleagues Eucke, Bache, Rutherford "working with him in New York, on his PHOTOGRAPHIE METHODS [] the impressions of stars to the 81/2 magnitude with white light []". He also announces a major publication: "An edition of the standard places of fixed stars [] the results of four years observations at Washington []". GOULD created the Astronomical Journal and discovered the Gould Belt (1879).

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