Charles Henry Davis
16 Jan 1807 – 18 Feb 1877
self-educated American astronomer and rear admiral of the United States Navy. worked for the United States Coast Survey and researched tides and currents, commander of the Western Gunboat Flotilla in the U.S. Civil War, one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences, author of several books.
Books
- Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Moving about the Sun in Conic Sections
- Life of Charles Henry Davis, Rear Admiral, 1807-1877
- Le Verrier's letter on the intermercurial planets
- Narrative of the North Polar Expedition
- General examination of the Pacific Ocean
- Life of Charles Henry Davis, rear admiral, 1807-1877
- Theory of the Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Moving about the Sun in Conic Sections
- Professor Encke's method of computing special perturbations
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