Standard mean right-ascensions of circumpolar and time stars, prepared for the use of the U.S. Coast Survey
by BACHE, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867)
Price: $86.00
- Bookseller: Jeff Weber Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: S6265
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: 2
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Government Printing Office
- Place: Washington, D.C.:
- Date published: 1862
Book Description
Washington, D.C.:: Government Printing Office. 1862. hardcover. 2. 4to. 15, [1 blank] pp. Tables. Dis-bound. Ms. notations on title. Very good. . "When Bache assumed direction of the Coast Survey, it was a small, insecurely established body with high scientific standards. In less than two decades it became entrenched, the largest employer of physical scientists in the United States, and active in many scientific fields.... Bache is clearly one of the founders of the scientific community in the United States. His administration of the Coast Survey established a model for large-scale scientific organization that was followed either implicitly or explicitly by later groups." DSB, I, pp. 363-365.
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