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OLMSTED, DENISON (1791-1859)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 90 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DENISON
DENISON, GEORGE ANTHONY (1805-1896)
DENISON, GEORGE TAYLOR (1839- )
DENISON (1791-1859) , See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

man of See also:

SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

East See also:

HARTFORD

Hartford, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, U.S.A., on the 18th of See also:

JUNE

June 1791, and in 1813 graduated at Yale, where he acted as See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

college See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor from 1815 to 1817. In the latter See also:

YEAR

year he was appointed to the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

chemistry, See also:

MINERALOGY

mineralogy and See also:

GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

geology in the university of See also:

North Carolina. This chair he exchanged for that of See also:

MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics and physics at Yale in 1825; in 1836, when this professorship was divided, he retained that of See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy and natural See also:

PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy. He died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 13th of May 1859. His first publication (1824-1825) was the See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

Report of his See also:

GEOLOGICAL

geological survey of the See also:

state of North Carolina. It was followed by various See also:

TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text-books on natural philosophy and astronomy, but he is chiefly known to the scientific See also:

WORLD

world for his observations on See also:

HAIL (O. Eng. kcegl and hagol, 1 cf. the cognate Teutonic hagel, as in German, Dutch, Swedish, &c.; the Gr. K&XX17E, pebble, is probably allied)

hail (1830), on meteors and on the See also:

aurora borealis (see Smithsonian Contributions, vol. viii.).

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