See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

CHARLES See also:

• PICKERING
• EDWARD CHARLES PICKERING (1846- )
• PICKERING, TIMOTHY (174 1829)

PICKERING (1846- )  , See also:

• AMERICAN

American physicist and astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston on the 19th of See also:

• JULY

July 1846 . He graduated in 1865 at the See also:

• LAWRENCE
• LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
• LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
• LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
• LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
• LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
• LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
• LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
• LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)

Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, where for the next two years he was a teacher of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics . Subsequently he became See also:

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

professor of physics at the See also:

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

Massachusetts See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute of Technology, and in 1876 he was appointed professor of See also:

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

astronomy and director of the Harvard See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory . In 1877 he decided to devote one of the telescopes of the observatory to stellar See also:

• PHOTOMETRY (from Gr. (Pews, xarrbs, light, µerpov, a measure)

photometry, and after an exhaustive trial of various forms of photo-meters, he devised the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian photometer (see PHOTOMETRY, STELLAR), which seemed to be See also:

• FREE

free from most of the See also:

• SOURCES

sources of See also:

• ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error . With the first See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind, having objectives of 1.5 See also:

• INCH (O. Eng. ynce from Lat. uncia, a twelfthpart; cf. " ounce," and see As)

inch See also:

• APERTURE (from Lat. aperire, to open)

aperture, he measured the brightness of 4260 stars, including all stars down to the 6th magnitude between the See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

North See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

Pole and -30° See also:

• DECLINATION (from Lat. declinare, to decline)

declination . With the See also:

• OBJECT

object of reaching fainter stars, Professor See also:

• PICKERING
• PICKERING, EDWARD CHARLES (1846- )
• PICKERING, TIMOTHY (174 1829)

Pickering constructed another instrument of larger dimensions, and with this more than a million observations have been made . The first important See also:

• WORK

work undertaken with it was a revision of the magnitudes given in the See also:

• BONN

Bonn Durchmusterung . On the completion of this, Professor Pickering decided to undertake the survey of the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern hemisphere . An expedition, under the direction of Prof . S . I . See also:

• BAILEY (said to be a corruption of Ballium by some, and derived by others from the Fr. baille, a corruption of bataille, because there the soldiers were drilled in battle array)
• BAILEY, NATHAN
• BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES (1816-1902)
• BAILEY, SAMUEL (1791-1870)

Bailey, was accordingly despatched (1889), and the meridian photometer erected successively in three different positions on the slopes of the See also:

• ANDES

Andes .

The third of these was See also:

• AREQUIPA

Arequipa, at which a permanent See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the Harvard Observatory is now located . The .magnitudes of nearly 8000 southern stars were determined, including 1428 stars of the 6th magnitude and brighter . The instrument was then returned to See also:

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

Cambridge (U.S.A.), where the survey extended so as to include all stars of magnitude 7.5 down to -40° declination, after which it was once more sent back to Arequipa . In 1886 the widow of See also:

• HENRY
• HENRY (1129-1195)
• HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
• HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
• HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
• HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
• HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
• HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
• HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
• HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
• HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
• HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
• HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
• HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)

Henry See also:

• DRAPER
• DRAPER, JOHN WILLIAM (1811-1882)

Draper, one of the pioneers of stellar See also:

• SPECTROSCOPY (from Lat. spectrum, an appearance, and Gr. a-sore y, to see)

spectroscopy, made a liberal See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision for carrying on spectroscopic investigations at Harvard College in memory of her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband . With Professor Pickering's usual comprehensiveness, the inquiry was so arranged as to See also:

• COVER (from the Fr. convert, from couvrir, to cover, Lat. cooperire)

cover the whole See also:

• SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky; and with four telescopes—two at Cambridge for the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern hemisphere, and two at Arequipa in See also:

• PERU
• PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)

Peru for the southern—to which a See also:

• FINE

fine 24-in. photographic See also:

• TELESCOPE

telescope was afterwards added, no fewer than 75,000 photographs had been obtained up to the beginning of 1901 . These investigations have yielded many important discoveries, not only of new stars, and of large See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers of variable stars, but also of a wholly new class of See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double stars whose binary See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character is only revealed by peculiarities in their spectra . The important conclusion has been already derived that the See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of the stars in the Milky Way belong to one See also:

• SPECIAL

special type .