Chandler, Seth Carlo, 1846-1913
Seth Chandler letters to Charles H. Rockwell, 1883-1884.
Three letters with enclosures written by Seth Carlo Chandler to Charles Rockwell. Letters concern an astronomical instrument built under Chandler's supervision for Rockwell. There are references in the letters to Chandler's work on the almucantar at the Harvard College Observatory.
Astronomer. Research associate at the Harvard College Observatory from 1881-1885/1886. His chief contribution to instrumental astronomy was the invention of an almucantar. Discoverer of the "Chandler Wobble," a movement in the Earth's axis of rotation.
Chandler, Seth Carlo, 1846-1913
Rockwell, Charles H.
Harvard College Observatory
Almucantar
Astronomical instruments.
AIP-ICOS
Harvard University. Archives. Pusey Library. Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.