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1766 |
John Hales publishes interesting calculations. |
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09/05/1769 |
Comet with a long tail is visible in the early morning sky above Boston. |
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1779 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences is established in Cambridge. |
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1786 |
Joseph Pope constructs an orrery in his home on Washington Street. |
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04/16/1806 |
Total eclipse of the sun is visible in Boston. |
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05/28/1807 |
Agassiz (Louis A.) is born in Switzerland. |
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1815 |
William Cranch Bond is sent to observe construction of the Greenwich observatory in England. |
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02/09/1830 |
Boston Society of Natural History is established. |
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01/15/1846 |
Asa Gray delivers a controversial lecture on creation in Cambridge. |
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04/25/1850 |
Elizabeth Cabot Cary marries Louis Agassiz. |
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