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Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896) was a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.
Foi iniciador da astronomia observacional e da meteorologia na Argentina. Foi diretor do Observatório Astronômico de Córdoba entre 1871 e 1885, e graças aos seus registos estelar corrigiu a deficiência de informações sobre o céu do sul, que lhe rendeu reconhecimento internacional.
Benjamin Apthorp Gould (born Sept. 27, 1824, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 26, 1896, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American astronomer whose star catalogs helped fix the list of constellations of the Southern Hemisphere. A child prodigy who could read aloud at age three and compose poems in Latin at age five, Gould studied mathematics and the ...
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Dr. Benjamin Apthorp Gould, born in Boston, was the first American to obtain a Ph.D in Astronomy from Germany (Göttingen). His commitment to professionalize American astronomy included the founding and editing of The Astronomical Journal beginning in 1849.
BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. BY GEORGE. C. COMSTOCK. Benjamin Apthorp Gould was one of the incorporators of the National Academy of Sciences, a conspicuous figure in its early annals as well as in the history of American science; or Science in America, as Gould is careful to say.
26 de jul. de 2002 · BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD. 857 the United States Naval Observatory since its establishment, as he had done also, several years previously, for the expedition to Chili to deter mine the solar parallax. In 1866 he planned and executed the work of establishing, by the Atlantic cable, the relation in longitude between
ABSTRACT. On the sesquicentennial of the Astronomical Journal, we commemorate the life of its founder, Benja-min Apthorp Gould (1824È1896), and examine the precarious and heroic early days of this pioneering serial.
