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Winslow Upton

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He was a member of the U. S. government eclipse expeditions of 1878 and 1883, also of two private expeditions sent out in 1887 and 1889, and in 1896-97 was attached to the southern station of
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in 1881. He was appointed professor and head of the department of astronomy at Brown in 1884. He then became director of
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He married Cornelia Augusta Babcock in 1882 and they had two children. Eleanor Stuart Upton was a librarian at the
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when it opened in 1891. During his tenure Upton also served as secretary of the faculty and dean at Brown.
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where he received his master's degree in 1877. He later received an honorary doctorate from Brown in 1906.
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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Aplin, K. L.; Scott, C. J.; Gray, S. L. (2016). "Atmospheric changes from solar eclipses".
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Annual Report of the Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, to the Secretary of War
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and was valedictorian when he graduated in 1875. Upton then worked as an assistant at
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Upton, Winslow (1885). "The Use of the Spectroscope in Meteorological Observations".
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Upton Family Records: Being Genealogical Collections for an Upton Family History
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Information Relative to the Construction and Maintenance of Time Balls
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Star atlas, containing stars visible to the naked eye
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An Investigation of Cyclonic Phenomena in New England
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Memorie della Societa Degli Spettroscopisti Italiani
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Portrait of Winslow Upton
Salem, Massachusetts
Providence, Rhode Island
Brown University
University of Cincinnati
Astronomy
Meteorology
Ladd Observatory
Frederick Slocum
astronomer
meteorology
Brown University
Mitchel Observatory
University of Cincinnati
Harvard Observatory
Gilbert and Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
computer
U.S. Naval Observatory
U.S. Signal Service
Ladd Observatory
Harvard University
Arequipa
Peru
John Carter Brown Library
Yale University Library
Providence Journal
Information Relative to the Construction and Maintenance of Time Balls
"Lectures on Practical Astronomy"
Hazen, W. B.

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