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Box OB-1

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Contains 1 Result:

Eclipse drawings, 1900

 File — Box: OB-1, Folder: 13-14
Scope and Contents note From the Series: A project which absorbed Abbe's attention between 1886 and 1907 involved a book written in Russia by the meteorologist, Alexander J. Woeikoff, a professor and astronomer at the University of St. Petersburg. In 1884, Woeikoff published the original Climates of the Earth, and Abbe hoped to have a translation published in the United States. Abbe engaged Alexander Ziwet, a University of Michigan professor of Mathematics to translate the volume into English, and Abbe intended...
Dates: 1900