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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall, Asaph 1829- (search)
ry of Harvard College, where he served as assistant in 1857-62. In August of the latter year he was made aide in the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, and in the following year was appointed Professor of Mathematics with the relative rank of captain. In 1895 he became Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. He has led many astronomical expeditions for the government, among them being that to Bering Sea, in 1869, to observe the solar eclipse, and that to Vladisvostok, Siberia, in 1874, to study the transit of Venus. His most important discovery, which won him great distinction, was that of the two moons of Mars, which he located in August, 1877, and which he named Deimos and Phobos (Terror and Fear). The Royal Astronomical Society of London awarded him its gold medal in 1879. In 1875 he became a member of the National Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1901. He has contributed articles to many astronomical journals in the United States and Europe.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
nd oppression. Nobly has she asserted her independence and vindicated her sovereignty. She has taken her place in the Southern constellation. She has added another star to the flag of the Confederate States, which floats over the dome of her capitol, the proud and unsullied emblem of Southern nationality. She has united her destiny with a sisterhood of States, identified with her in sympathies, in interests, and institutions — with the new born republic of the South, which, like another Mars, has sprung into existence full armed — a young giant, whose tread is already on the pathway of victory and national renown; whose prowess, power, and resources challenge the recognition of civilized nations, and to whom a future of unexampled prosperity and glory has already opened. We congratulate Tennessee and the Confederate States upon the mutual good fortune of this auspicious alliance. She brings into the new republic the rich dowry of her unsullied patriotism, her ancestral valor,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
n also applied to an object-glass micrometer, as well as to an instrument for finding the rising and setting of stars and their positions. As-tro-nom′i cal clock. A clock regulated to keep regular time; sidered, not mean. As-tro-nom′i-cal In′stru-ments. The first phenomenon recorded in the Chinese annals is a conjunction of five planets in the reign of Tehuenhiu (2514 – 2436 B. C.). The record is verified by Fr. de Mailla and others, and identified with 2461 B. C. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus were, with the moon, comprised within an are of about 12° in the constellation Pisces. The emperor Yao, 2367 B. C., determined the length of the moon's year. An orrery is said to have been constructed in the second century A. D. in China; the account states that it represented the apparent motion of the heavenly bodies round the earth, and was kept in motion by water dropping from a clepsydra. The heliocentric, the true theory of oar solar system, was taught in Ancient Egy
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
c. Farther, that the book of the captive, the said Solomon De Caus, was exhibited to the Marquis, who pronounced the madman the greatest genius of the age. The idea took with an imaginative people, and became a subject for painters and dramatists. Finally, grave writers on mechanics and compilers of dictionaries inserted the name of De Caus as the inventor of the steam-engine. The authority for all was a letter, purporting to have been written in 1641 by Marion de Lorme to her lover, Cinq Mars. Mr. Muirhead, in his life of Watt, might exclaim, See how plain a tale shall put thee down! There was, says he, no Marquis of Worcester in 1641. The title of Marquis was not conferred till 1642, and then upon Henry Somerset, the father of the Marquis, the author of The century of inventions, and the person who was doing the mad-house. A French historian farther cites that Solomon De Caus could hardly have been seen at Bicetre in 1641 in a raving condition, as he died in 1630; and farther
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 24 (search)
ss sleet of bullets. Artillery opens on both sides, and the whole valley is filled with the dun, sulphurous smoke, through which the steady assailants move more like churchyard ghouls or gnomes than human beings, braving the terrors of our modern Mars. A half hour later, and the quick, sharp volleys, further to the right, announce that Johnson is on the move. He, too, with banners flying, and covered by the plunging shell and canister, is fighting his way across the valley with the object os. Thus closed the fighting on the sixteenth. As I pass around the camp, even among those who have come out from the fiery ordeal unsinged, are not a few making the hours speed in hilarity as though Momus were indeed holding court instead of Mars. Operations on the fifteenth. Musketry begins at daylight again. I hear it last when I go to sleep and first when I waken. There is a haze floating through the atmosphere, and the sun this morning is the blood-red orb that rose on Chickam
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 9: battle of Ossawatomie. (search)
en their brothers Traffic human flesh for gold, Laugh, like arch fiends, as poor mothers' Heartstrings break for daughters sold; Men who scoff at higher statutes Than their codes of legal wrong; Men whom only tyrant-rule suits; Men whom Hell would blush to own: I will lay them as on altars, Prairies! on your grasses green: Cursed be the man who falters- Better had he never been. Brothers! we are God-appointed Soldiers in these holy wars; Set apart, sealed and anointed Children of a Heavenly Mars! Weakness we need not dissemble- But Jehovah leads us on: Who is he that dares to tremble, Led by God of Gideon? Let them laugh in mad derision At our little feeble band-- God has told me in a vision We shall liberate the land. Rise, then, brothers; do not doubt me; I can feel his presence now, Feel his promises about me, Like a helmet on my brow. We must conquer, we must slaughter; We are God's rod, and his ire Wills their blood shall flow like water: In Jehovah's dread name — Fire!
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 3: Holmes (search)
to leave the town in order to shake it off. Holmes's relation to science now appears, when seen from the literary point of view, to have been more that of the poet than of the man of science. None but Holmes, says Professor Dwight, his associate, could have compared the microscopical coiled tube of a sweat-gland to a fairy's intestine. He was also one of the early microscopists, and these are themselves the poets of science. He suggested in 1872, before Percival Lowell did, the snows on Mars; and described a plant, considered as a companion for a sick room, in the true Darwinian spirit as an innocent, delightfully idiotic being that is not troubled with any of our poor human weaknesses and irritabilities. Dr. Cheever says of him that he was too sympathetic to practise medicine, and when he thought it necessary to use a freshly killed rabbit for demonstration he always left his assistant to chloroform it and besought him not to let it squeak. He believed in the elevating influe
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, Part 2: daring enterprises of officers and men. (search)
plateau can never be painted. As the blue coats surged over its edge, cheer on cheer rang like bells through the valley of the Chickamauga. Men flung themselves exhausted upon the ground. They laughed and wept, shook hands, embraced; turned round and did all four over again. It was as wild as a carnival. Granger was received with a shout. Soldiers, he said, you ought to be court-martialed, every man of you I ordered you to take the rifle-pits and you scaled the mountain! but it was not Mars' horrid front exactly with which he said it, for his cheeks were wet with tears as honest as the blood that reddened all the route. Wood uttered words that rang like Napoleon's, and Sheridan, the rowels at his horse's flanks, was ready for a dash down the Ridge with a view halloo, for a fox hunt. But you must not think this was all there was of the scene on the crest, for fight and frolic was strangely mingled. Not a rebel had dreamed a man of us all would live to reach the summit, and
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The capture of Mission Ridge. (search)
plateau can never be painted. As the blue coats surged over its edge, cheer on cheer rang like bells through the valley of the Chickamauga. Men flung themselves exhausted upon the ground. They laughed and wept, shook hands, embraced; turned round and did all four over again. It was as wild as a carnival. Granger was received with a shout. Soldiers, he said, you ought to be court-martialed, every man of you I ordered you to take the rifle-pits and you scaled the mountain! but it was not Mars' horrid front exactly with which he said it, for his cheeks were wet with tears as honest as the blood that reddened all the route. Wood uttered words that rang like Napoleon's, and Sheridan, the rowels at his horse's flanks, was ready for a dash down the Ridge with a view halloo, for a fox hunt. But you must not think this was all there was of the scene on the crest, for fight and frolic was strangely mingled. Not a rebel had dreamed a man of us all would live to reach the summit, and
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry, Chapter II (search)
n rolled up in our overcoats and rubber blankets, with our knapsacks for a pillow, we could get a good night's rest. Two days out from Camp Lincoln, the regiment overtook the corps and took its place in the Second Brigade. According to Col. Beckwith the reception it received was not altogether pleasant. He says, Another source of annoyance and hardship was the constant shouting and ridicule we received from the old regiments. We were called Paid Hirelings, Two Hundred Dollar Men, Sons of Mars; told we would get soft bread farther on if we did not like hardtack; asked if we liked army life, and a lot of stuff too foolish to speak of; but to us it was excessively annoying. Our men were an extraordinary body of troops and felt keenly this ridicule, but they bore it patiently, except now and then some hot blood would hit out and resent the insult. Such outbreaks were quickly quieted. Soon, however, a sincere friendship sprang up between the 121st and the 5th Maine, which deepened
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