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en
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team with images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr
Release date
2005-04-17
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Public domain in the USA.
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1846–1919
A pioneering American astronomer, he helped turn the Harvard College Observatory into a world center for stellar research. He is especially remembered for advancing large-scale star cataloging and for supporting the groundbreaking work of the women astronomers later known as the Harvard Computers.
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