San Francisco / Washington / D.C. / Washington / Salem / Cambridge / /
Company
W.E. Byerly / Survey / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
United States / / /
Event
Employment Change / Person Travel / Judicial Event / /
Facility
Harvard University / John Cloud NOAA Central Library / Harvard College / /
IndustryTerm
telegraphic longitude systems / coastal geodetic networks / geodetic networks / geodetic network / telegraph systems / /
MarketIndex
SET 100 / /
NaturalFeature
Atlantic coast / San Francisco Bay / Gulf Stream / Savannah river / Bay of Fundy / Raritan river / Mississippi River / Passaic river / Merrimack river / Lake Champlain / Columbia River / Pacific coast / Gulf coast / Gulf of Maine / /
Organization
US Commission on Fish and Fisheries / US government / American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Coast Survey10 / Smithsonian Institution / Board of Regents / Smithsonian / Harvard University / Peirce administration / National Academy of Sciences / Harvard College / Department of the Treasury / Congress / federal government / American Association for the Advancement of Science / /
Person
George Davidson / Henry Mitchell / William Ferrel / T.C. Mendenhall / William Redfield / Nathaniel Bowditch / R.C. Archibald / Henry Papers / Hugh McCullough / Louis de Portales / A.D. Bache / Charles Eliot / D. Bache / Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch / Benjamin Peirce / Julius Hilgard / Charles Sanders Peirce / Alexander Agassiz / Louis Agassiz / Joseph Henry / Henry Marindin / Silver Spring / / /
Position
mathematical biographer / President / tutor / great counselor / Secretary of the Treasury / Secretary / Superintendent / mathematician / hydrographer / Hydrographic Inspector / Professor / foundational oceanographer / head of tide / accomplished scientist / Assistant / Survey scientist / Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy / one of the first members / Superintendent for several reasons / director of the Survey / endowed professor / second president / first president / lecturer / /
Chapter 5: Benjamin Peirce and "The Science of Necessary Conclusions"