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• BENJAMIN
• BENJAMIN, JUDAHPHILIP (1811-1884)

BENJAMIN See also:

• BENJAMIN PEIRCE (1809-188o)

PEIRCE (1809-188o)  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American mathematician and astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• SALEM

Salem, See also:

• MASSACHUSETTS (an Indian name, originally applied to a tribe of Indians)

Massachusetts, on the 4th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1809 . Graduating at Harvard See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College in 1829, he became mathematical See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor there in 1831 and See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in 1833 . He had already assisted Nathaniel See also:

• BOWDITCH, NATHANIEL (1773-1838)

Bowditch in his See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Mecanique See also:

• CELESTE, MADAME (1815–1882)

celeste, and now produced a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of mathematical textbooks characterized by the brevity and terseness which made his teaching unattractive to inapt pupils . See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young men of See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent, on the contrary, found his instruction most stimulating, and after Bowditch's See also:

• DEATH

death in 1838 See also:

• PEIRCE, BENJAMIN (1809-188o)

Peirce stood first among American mathematicians . His researches into the perturbations of See also:

• URANUS
• URANUS (Heaven)

Uranus and See also:

• NEPTUNE
• NEPTUNE (Lat. NEPTUNUS)

Neptune (Prot . Amer . Acad., 1848) gave him a wider fame; he became in 1849 consulting astronomer to the American Nautical See also:

• ALMANAC

Almanac, and for this See also:

• WORK

work prepared new tables of the See also:

• MOON (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
• MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)

moon (1852) . A discussion of the See also:

• EQUILIBRIUM (from the Lat. aequus, equal, and libra, a balance)

equilibrium of See also:

• SATURN
• SATURN [SATURNUS]

Saturn's rings led him to conclude in 1855 that they must be of a fluid nature . From 1867 to 1874 he was See also:

• SUPERINTENDENT

superintendent of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

Coast Survey . In 1857 he published his best known work, the See also:

• SYSTEM

System of See also:

• ANALYTICAL

Analytical See also:

• MECHANICS

Mechanics, which was, however, surpassed in brilliant originality by his Linear Associative See also:

• ALGEBRA (from the Arab. al-jebr wa'l-mugabala, transposition and removal [of terms of an equation], the name of a treatise by Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi)

Algebra (lithographed privately in a few copies, 187o; reprinted in the Amer . Journ . Math., 1882) .

He died at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, See also:

• MASS (O.E. maesse; Fr. messe; Ger. Messe; Ital. messa; from eccl. Lat. missa)
• MASS, IN

Mass., on the 6th of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1880 . See New Amer . Cyclopae.dia (See also:

• RIPLEY
• RIPLEY, GEORGE (1802-1880)

Ripley and See also:

• DANA, CHARLES ANDERSON (1819–'897)
• DANA, FRANCIS (1743-1811)
• DANA, JAMES DWIGHT (1813-1895)

Dana), vol. xiii . (1861) ; T . J . J . See, Popular See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

Astronomy, iii . 49; Nature, xxii . 607; R . See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, Hist. of Phys . Astronomy, pp . 205, 292; J .

C . See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff, Biog. lit . Handworterbuch; See also:

• MONTH
• MONTH (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maand, Dan. maaned, &c., and cognate with Lat. mensis, Gr. µi7v, &c., in other branches of the Indo-Germanic family; all ultimately from the root seen in the word for the moon in nearly all those languages

Month . Notices See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . Astr . Society, xli . 191 .