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121:. Lenzen's investigations led to the location of these report by Coast and Geodetic Survey archivist Albert Whimpey in 1968. When Lenzen studied the papers he found that Peirce had first presented an overview of his methodology before presenting the data. Although this became common practice in the twentieth century, it was not well received at the time. 129:
refused to publish them and engineered Peirce's sacking. Nevertheless, the data were used with inadequate attributation to Peirce. When looking at Peirce's results nearly a hundred years later Lenzen found their accuracy comparable to contemporary computer results for the data.
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investigations. These included making precise measurements of the intensity of the gravitational field at different locations. Peirce used swinging pendulums often of his own design. This practical involvement in physics played a major role in Peirce's rejection of scientific
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to Harvard. His familiarity with the papers gave rise to his suspicion that there were still in existence Peirce's gravity reports. From 1859 until the last day of 1891, Peirce had been employed by the United States Coast Survey (renamed the
79:, being influenced by their ideas on scientific methodology. He rejected Royce's idealism and developed his interest in physics, particularly with fundamental physical theory e.g. 63:
in 1909, he developed an interest in physics, but decided to major in philosophy. After graduating at the head of his class in 1913, he received a scholarship to
150: 109: 253: 48:, San Francisco where he developed an early interests in marine engineering, studying the armaments and the outfittings of all the 53: 45: 68: 126: 60: 88: 248: 243: 34: 72: 204: 104: 41:) was an American physicist most noted for his logical rigour and commitment to teaching. 100: 237: 122: 49: 80: 76: 118: 17: 177: 83:'s Corpuscular Theory of Matter, and the philosophical approach found in 113: 64: 38: 151:"In Memoriam, September 1978: Victor Fritz Lenzen, Physics: Berkeley" 125:
was particularly dismissive. Peirce refused to rewrite the reports.
84: 71:. He gained his PhD in philosophy in 1916. Here he studied with 52:
in the world. He liked to take long walks around the nearby
99:While at Harvard Lenzen was responsible for taking 44:His father was a building contractor. He went to 59:Although he started studying engineering at the 184:. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University 8: 94: 182:The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 139: 110:United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 7: 145: 143: 25: 27:American physicist (1890–1975) 1: 205:"In the Works: Lost Reports" 46:Lick-Wilmerding High School 270: 157:. University of California 69:San Francisco Harvard Club 254:Harvard University alumni 212:Peirce Project Newsletter 178:"Charles Sanders Peirce" 127:Thomas Corwin Mendenhall 61:University of California 95:Peirce's "Lost Reports" 89:Critique of Pure Reason 176:Burch, Robert (2017). 33:(14 December 1890, in 203:Eller, John (1999). 112:in 1878) in various 37:– 18 July 1975, in 31:Victor Fritz Lenzen 16:(Redirected from 261: 228: 227: 225: 223: 209: 200: 194: 193: 191: 189: 173: 167: 166: 164: 162: 147: 73:Bertrand Russell 21: 18:Victor F. Lenzen 269: 268: 264: 263: 262: 260: 259: 258: 234: 233: 232: 231: 221: 219: 207: 202: 201: 197: 187: 185: 175: 174: 170: 160: 158: 155:texts.cdlib.org 149: 148: 141: 136: 103:'s papers from 97: 28: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 267: 265: 257: 256: 251: 246: 236: 235: 230: 229: 195: 168: 138: 137: 135: 132: 101:Charles Peirce 96: 93: 54:Hunter's Point 26: 24: 14: 13: 10: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 266: 255: 252: 250: 247: 245: 242: 241: 239: 217: 213: 206: 199: 196: 183: 179: 172: 169: 156: 152: 146: 144: 140: 133: 131: 128: 124: 123:Simon Newcomb 120: 115: 111: 106: 102: 92: 90: 86: 82: 78: 74: 70: 66: 62: 57: 55: 51: 50:capital ships 47: 42: 40: 36: 32: 19: 220:. Retrieved 215: 211: 198: 186:. Retrieved 181: 171: 159:. Retrieved 154: 98: 81:J.J. Thomson 77:Josiah Royce 58: 43: 30: 29: 249:1975 deaths 244:1890 births 222:23 November 188:23 November 161:23 November 119:determinism 238:Categories 134:References 67:from the 218:(1): 4–5 114:geodetic 35:San Jose 65:Harvard 39:Oakland 105:Arisbe 208:(PDF) 224:2017 190:2017 163:2017 85:Kant 75:and 87:'s 240:: 214:. 210:. 180:. 153:. 142:^ 91:. 56:. 226:. 216:3 192:. 165:. 20:)

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Victor F. Lenzen
San Jose
Oakland
Lick-Wilmerding High School
capital ships
Hunter's Point
University of California
Harvard
San Francisco Harvard Club
Bertrand Russell
Josiah Royce
J.J. Thomson
Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Charles Peirce
Arisbe
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
geodetic
determinism
Simon Newcomb
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall


"In Memoriam, September 1978: Victor Fritz Lenzen, Physics: Berkeley"
"Charles Sanders Peirce"
"In the Works: Lost Reports"
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