Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914)
Forfatter af The Sciences
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Image credit: Edward S. Holden [source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division]
Værker af Edward Singleton Holden
Essays In Astronomy By Ball, Harkness, Herschel, Huggins, Laplace, Mitchel, Proctor, Schiaparelli, And Others (1900) (2008) 3 eksemplarer
Stories of the Great Astronomers: Conversations with a Child. Appleton's Home Reading Books (1900) 2 eksemplarer
Flowers from Persian Gardens: Selections from the Poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyám, and Others (2010) 2 eksemplarer
The Family of the Sun 1 eksemplar
Mountaintop Observatories in America and Europe 1 eksemplar
The Mogul emperors of Hindustan, 1398-1707 1 eksemplar
Monograph of the Central Parts of the Nebula of Orion (R.A. 5h 28m 24s.O, N.P.D. 952910.9, 1860.0) (2016) 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1846-11-05
- Dødsdag
- 1914-03-16
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Dødssted
- West Point, New York, USA
- Erhverv
- astronomer
mathematician
librarian - Organisationer
- United States Naval Observatory
Washburn Observatory
University of Wisconsin
University of California
Lick Observatory
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (vis alle 7)
United States Military Academy - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- asteroid namesake (872 Holda)
crater on moon named in his honor
crater on Mars named in his honor
National Academy of Sciences - Kort biografi
- Holden wrote many books on popular science (and on other subjects, such as flags and heraldry), including science books intended for children.
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