Edward Singleton Holden (1846–1914)
Autor(a) de The Sciences
About the Author
Image credit: Edward S. Holden [source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division]
Obras por Edward Singleton Holden
Essays In Astronomy By Ball, Harkness, Herschel, Huggins, Laplace, Mitchel, Proctor, Schiaparelli, And Others (1900) (2008) 3 exemplares
Stories of the Great Astronomers: Conversations with a Child. Appleton's Home Reading Books (1900) 2 exemplares
Flowers from Persian Gardens: Selections from the Poems of Saadi, Hafiz, Omar Khayyám, and Others (2010) 2 exemplares
The Family of the Sun 1 exemplar
The Mogul emperors of Hindustan, 1398-1707 1 exemplar
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 exemplar
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1846-11-05
- Data de falecimento
- 1914-03-16
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Local de falecimento
- West Point, New York, USA
- Ocupações
- astronomer
mathematician
librarian - Organizações
- United States Naval Observatory
Washburn Observatory
University of Wisconsin
University of California
Lick Observatory
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (mostrar todos 7)
United States Military Academy - Prémios e menções honrosas
- asteroid namesake (872 Holda)
crater on moon named in his honor
crater on Mars named in his honor
National Academy of Sciences
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 26
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 139
- Popularidade
- #147,351
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 23
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