Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877.
Davis, Charles Henry
Charles Henry Davis United States Navy admiral (1807-1877)
Davis, C.H.
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- 100 0 _ ‡a Charles Henry Davis ‡c United States Navy admiral (1807-1877)
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Davis, C.H.
- 100 1 _ ‡a Davis, Charles Henry
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Davis, Charles Henry ‡d 1807-1877
- 100 1 _ ‡a Davis, Charles Henry, ‡d 1807-1877
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- 100 1 _ ‡a Davis, Charles Henry, ‡d 1807-1877
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Works
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The coast survey of the United States. | |
The computation of an orbit from three complete observations. From the "Theoria motus corporum cœlestium" of Charles Frederick Gauss. With an appendix containing Prof. Encke's conclusions in his discussion of the values of Z, his table for determining the existence of the double orbit, and Professor Peirce's graphic delineations of the curves, showing geometrically the roots of the Gaussian equation <IV.>, and the point of osculation in the doubtful case. | |
[fig. p.185 : la tombe du Capitaine C.F. Hall. Expédition au Pôle 1871-1873.] [cote : Réserve B 139] | |
General examination of the Pacific Ocean | |
Interoceanic communication at the American isthmus. Letter from the secretary of the navy in answer to a resolution of the House calling for the report of Rear-Admiral Davis ... | |
The law of deposit of the flood tide: its dynamical action and office. | |
Memoir on Boston harbor | |
A memoir upon the geological action of the tidal and other currents of the ocean | |
Narrative of the North polar expedition, U. S. ship "Polaris", captain Charles Francis Hall commanding | |
Remarks upon the establishment of an American prime meridian. | |
Report on interoceanic canals and railroads between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. | |
Report on the harbor of Charleston | |
A scientific account of the inner harbor of Boston : with a synopsis of the general principles to be observed in the improvement of tidal harbors | |
Tables of the moon; constructed from Plana's theory, with Airy's and Longstreth's corrections, Hansen's two inequalities of long period arising from the action of Venus, and Hansen's values of the secular variations of the mean motion and of the motion of the perigee. Arranged in a form designed by Professor Benjamin Peirce, consulting astronomer, for the use of the Nautical almanac. Under the superintendence of Charles Henry Davis, lieut. United States navy; and published under the authority of the Hon. John P. Kennedy, secretary of the navy. | |
Telegraphic determination of longitudes in Mexico and Central America and on the West Coast of South America : embracing the meridians of Vera Cruz ; Guatemala ... | |
Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium. | |
Theory of the motion of the heavenly bodies moving about the sun in conic sections | |
Two memoranda on the objects and construction of the American ephemeris and Nautical Almanac | |
Le Verrier's letter of the intermercurial planets; and Faye's remarks upon its application to the case of the total eclipse of July 17 (Astron, time), 1860. |