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30-1037: Apthorp is a surname and may refer to: Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896), American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller (1879–1956), American philosopher Charles Apthorp (1698–1758), American merchant and slave trader Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815–1888), English classical scholar John Apthorp (1935–2024), British businessman specializing in frozen food and alcoholic beverages John T. Apthorp (1769–1849), American banker Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759–1846), American poet William Foster Apthorp (1848–1913), American music professor and critic William Lee Apthorp (1837–1879), American surveyor, military leader See also [ edit ] The Apthorp , apartment building in New York City Apthorp Farm ,

60-882: A disk (circle) as the generic symbol of an asteroid. That same year, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society . In 1864 he was admitted to the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati to represent his grandfather Captain Benjamin Gould. In the 1890s he became an early member of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution . Appointed in 1862 actuary to

90-574: A one-time farm on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Apthorp's Island , Massachusetts Apethorpe , village in England Authority control databases : National [REDACTED] United States [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Apthorp . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding

120-412: A period of over 180 years. Although the journal was founded in 1821, the first volume was dated 1823. Volume 1 (1823) consisted of 33 issues and a total of 516 pages. The next year, volume 2 (1824), saw 34 issues and 497 pages. Apart from the years 1830–1832, when two volumes were published in 1831 and none in 1830 or 1832, single volumes of around 20–30 issues were published each year until 1846. Then it

150-585: A professional science in the U.S.A. The main advice he received was to start a professional journal modeled after what was then the world's leading astronomical publication, the Astronomische Nachrichten . Gould returned to America in 1848 and from 1852 to 1867 worked in the United States Coast Survey , where he worked in geodetic astronomy and was in charge of the longitude department. He developed and organized

180-766: Is still published today. From 1855 to 1859 he acted as director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, New York , and in 1859 published a discussion of the places and proper motions of circumpolar stars to be used as standards by the United States Coast Survey. In 1861 he undertook the enormous task of preparing for publication the records of astronomical observations made at the United States Naval Observatory since 1850. In 1851 Gould suggested numbering asteroids in their order of discovery, and placing this number in

210-626: The Argentine republic , to organize a national observatory at Córdoba . In 1871 he became the first director of the Argentine National Observatory (today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba of the National University of Córdoba ). While there, he and four assistants (including Miles Rock ) extensively mapped the southern hemisphere skies using newly developed photometric methods. On June 1, 1884, he made

240-621: The Astrophysical Observatory of Potsdam . The observatory was in Potsdam , on the outskirts of Berlin, and from 1948 the journal was published by the publishing company Akademie-Verlag , under the auspices of the German Academy of Sciences Berlin . One of Kienle's students, Johann Wempe  [ de ] (1906–1980) succeeded him as editor in 1951 and held the post for 22 years. From 1949, and officially from

270-774: The Moon is named after him. Gould was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1892. He died at Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1896. In 1874, while in Argentina with his assistants, Gould completed his greatest work, the Uranometria Argentina , consisting of an atlas published in 1877 and catalog in 1879, for which he received in 1883 the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society . The atlas introduced

300-564: The United States Sanitary Commission , he issued in 1869 an important volume of Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers . This study, informed by Gould's commitment to race science, purported to construct typologies of Black and Indigenous bodies, in particular. In 1864 he fitted up a private observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and undertook in 1868, on behalf of

330-606: The 1950s until the reunification of Germany in 1990, the journal was published in the German Democratic Republic , behind the Iron Curtain . From 1974 onwards, the journal issues list a chief editor and an editorial board, and the journal was bilingual, with the same material published in German and English. Akademie-Verlag was taken over by VCH in 1990. From 1996 to the present day (from volume 317),

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360-706: The astronomical centre of the civilised world. Other astronomical journals were also founded around this time, such as the British Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , which was founded in 1827. It was the importance of Astronomische Nachrichten , however, that led the American astronomer Benjamin A. Gould in 1850 to found The Astronomical Journal in the United States. Following Schumacher's death,

390-466: The complete information for all stars in the original Uranometria Argentina, is available at www.uranometriaargentina.com/ . Gould followed his Uranometria Argentina with a zone-catalogue of 73,160 stars (1884), and a general catalogue (1885) compiled from meridian observations of 32,448 stars. Alice Bache Gould (1868–1953), a mathematician, philanthropist, and historian, was one of his five children. Astronomische Nachrichten The journal

420-523: The interim director of the observatory and editor of the journal was Adolph Cornelius Petersen  [ de ] , who had worked at the observatory with Schumacher for 24 years from around 1825. Petersen, who died in 1854, was later aided as editor by the Danish astronomer Thomas Clausen , who had also previously worked at the observatory. The editor from 1854 was the German astronomer Christian August Friedrich Peters , who had taken over as director of

450-589: The journal has been published by Wiley-VCH. This company was formed in 1996 when the German publishing company Verlag Chemie  [ de ] (founded 1921) joined John Wiley and Sons . The journal's editorial offices remain in Potsdam, at the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam , and the current editor (2007) is K. G. Strassmeier. The back catalogue of the journal includes 43,899 articles in 99,565 pages in 328 volumes, published over

480-472: The journal was not published at all from 1944 to 1946 (Berlin suffered heavy damage in the closing years of World War II ). From 1947 to the present, the journal has published a volume per year in most years, but did not publish at all in some years in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. From 1974 to 1996, the journal was published as 6 issues a year, with each volume being 300–400 pages. Under the new publishers, Wiley, this pattern continued until 2003, at which point

510-531: The journal was the organ of the Astronomische Gesellschaft . The editor from 1896 until his death in 1907 was the German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz , who had previously assisted Krueger. Kreutz edited volumes 140 to 175. Other staff members during the period from 1880 to 1907 included the astronomers Richard Schorr and Elis Strömgren . The editor from 1907 to 1938 was the German astronomer Hermann Kobold . After Kobold retired in 1938,

540-698: The journal's editorial office moved from Kiel to Berlin , and during the Second World War the journal was published by the Astronomical Calculation Institute (Heidelberg University) (Astronomisches Recheninstitut) in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1945, the institute was relocated to Heidelberg , but the journal remained in the Berlin region. After the war, Astronomische Nachrichten was edited by Hans Kienle , director of

570-501: The journal, from its founding in 1821 until his death in 1850. These early issues ran to hundreds of pages, and consisted mostly of letters sent by astronomers to Schumacher, reporting their observations. The journal proved to be a great success, and over the years Schumacher received thousands of letters from hundreds of contributors. The letters were published in the language in which they were submitted, mostly German, but also English, Italian and other languages. The journal's renown

600-754: The last definite sighting of the Great Comet of 1882 . The need of astronomers for good weather prediction spurred Gould to collaborate with Argentine colleagues to develop the Argentine National Weather Service, the first in South America. Gould's measurements of L. M. Rutherfurd 's photographs of the Pleiades in 1866 entitle him to rank as a pioneer in the use of the camera as an instrument of precision; and he secured at Córdoba 1400 negatives of southern star clusters ,

630-506: The observatory at Altona. In 1872, the observatory moved from Altona to Kiel , from where Peters continued to publish the journal until his death in 1880, aided in his final years by his son Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters . The journal would continue to be published in Kiel until 1938. Following Peters's death, Adalbert Krueger served as the new director of the observatory and editor of the journal from 1881 until he died in 1896. At this time

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660-505: The person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apthorp&oldid=1244381096 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Benjamin Apthorp Gould Benjamin Apthorp Gould (September 27, 1824 – November 26, 1896)

690-710: The reduction of which occupied the closing years of his life. He remained in Argentina until 1885, when he returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1883 and the James Craig Watson Medal in 1887. Astronomers continue to investigate the astrophysics of a large scale feature of the Milky Way to which he called their attention in 1877, and honor him with its name, The Gould Belt . A crater on

720-662: The service, was one of the first to determine longitudes by telegraphic means, and employed the Atlantic cable in 1866 to establish accurate longitude-relations between Europe and America. One of his assistants and life-long mentee was Seth Carlo Chandler , who went on to discover the Chandler wobble . After his return to Cambridge, Massachusetts , Gould started the Astronomical Journal in 1849, which he published until 1861. He resumed publication in 1885 and it

750-551: The system of defining constellation boundaries along lines of right ascension and declination, which was officially adopted by the International Astronomical Union for the whole sky in 1930. The catalog assigned Gould designations to all bright stars within 100 degrees of the south celestial pole in a manner similar to what Flamsteed had earlier done for the northern hemisphere. An updated version, to which late 20th century data have been appended to

780-773: Was a pioneering American astronomer . He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal , discovering the Gould Belt , and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service . He was born in Boston , Massachusetts, the son of Lucretia Dana (Goddard) and Benjamin Apthorp Gould, the principal of Boston Latin School , which the younger Gould attended. The poet Hannah Flagg Gould

810-564: Was acknowledged by the British astronomer John Herschel (then secretary to the Royal Astronomical Society ) in a letter to the Danish King in 1840, writing that Astronomische Nachrichten was: ...one of the most remarkable and influential astronomical works, which have ever appeared and which, while operating more beneficially on the progress of its Science than any similar work of modern times [has] made your Majesty's city of Altona ...

840-486: Was founded in 1821 by Heinrich Christian Schumacher , under the patronage of Christian VIII of Denmark , and quickly became the world's leading professional publication for the field of astronomy. Schumacher edited the journal at the Altona Observatory , then under the administration of Denmark , later part of Prussia, and today part of the German city of Hamburg . Schumacher edited the first 31 issues of

870-467: Was his aunt. After going on to Harvard College and graduating in 1844, he studied mathematics and astronomy under C. F. Gauss at Göttingen , Germany, during which time he published approximately 20 papers on the observation and motion of comets and asteroids . Following completion of his Ph.D. (he was the first American to receive this degree in astronomy) he toured European observatories asking for advice on what could be done to further astronomy as

900-407: Was mostly two volumes a year until 1884. There were a record number of five volumes published in 1884. Most years from 1884 to 1914 had three or more volumes. The years 1915–1919 (coinciding with World War I ) saw a dip in publication, with 1916 and 1919 only featuring one volume. From 1920 to 1940, most years saw three volumes published. Only one volume per year was published from 1941 to 1943, and

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