David Peck Todd

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David Peck Todd is affiliated with the following schools: Smith College, Amherst College, Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, David Peck Todd was an American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus. Biography Todd was born in Lake Ridge, New York, the son of Sereno Edwards Todd and Rhoda Todd. He prepared at John C. Overhiser's School in Brooklyn. He studied at Columbia University from 1870 to 1872, then at Amherst College from 1873 to 1875, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in the class of 1875. He earned his M.A. from Amherst in 1878. He was awarded an honorary degree from Washington and Jefferson College in 1888.

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The Sun (970)
THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. (1886) (417)
THE COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. (57)
The solar parallax as derived from the American photographs of the transit of Venus, 1874, December 8-9 (1881) (7)
Preliminary account of a speculative and practical search for a trans-Neptunian planet (1880) (5)
THE SOLAR PARALLAX. (1881) (2)
Report on the total solar eclipse of 1878, July 29 (2)
Domes mounted on cannon-balls. (1885) (2)
Automatic photography of the sun's corona (1933) (2)
The Total Eclipse (1890) (2)
HUMIDITY AND CHRONOMETER RATES. (1884) (1)
Observations of the Phenomena of Jupiter's Satellites (1877) (1)
On the use of the electric telegraph during total solar eclipses (1)
Automatic Photography of the Corona. (1897) (1)
THE DEARBORN OBSERVATORY. (1880) (1)
DISCUSSION OF A NATIONAL OBSERVATORY. (1899) (1)
Solar parallax from the velocity of light (1880) (1)
THE BRITISH NAUTICAL ALMANAC. (1885) (1)
Totality of the Eclipse of 1889 December 22 (1890) (1)
On observation of the eclipse of 1887, Aug. 18, in connection with the electric telegraph (1887) (1)
The Amherst Eclipse Expedition to Singkep, 1901 (1901) (1)
Power in Laboratories (1886) (1)
on the observations of the transit of Venus, 1882 December 5-6, made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California (1883) (1)
Telescopic search for the trans‐Neptunian planet (1)
Observations of the transit of Mercury, 1914, Nov. 6 (1915) (0)
Observations of the transit of Mercury, 1878, May. 5–6 made at Washington (0)
Solar Eclipse of March 16 (1885) (0)
An Open Air Telescope (1911) (0)
Observations of the transit of Venus, 1882, made at the Lick Observatory, California (1883) (0)
The Amherst eclipse expedition (1914) (0)
Optical resolution of the Saturnian ring (1912) (0)
On the Best Device for Revolving a Dome (1887) (0)
Observations of occultations during the total eclipse of the moon, 1888 January 28 (1888) (0)
Occultations of Planets, observed at Washington in 1876 and 1877. (0)
THE FUTURE OF THE LICK OBSERVATORY. (1885) (0)
On a modified form of revolving Occulter for adapting the exposure of the Sun's Corona to its actinic intensity at all distances from the Moon's limb (1901) (0)
Three Centuries of Total Eclipses of the Sun in Mexico 1850-2150 (1913) (0)
The Total Eclipse of 1914 in Turkey and Persia (1914) (0)
The story of the starry universe (1933) (0)
An account of the observations of the transit of Venus, 1882, made at the Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, California (0)
Halley's comet (0)
The Story of the Stars (1895) (0)
Todd, David P. July 1, 1891 [to S. Watson] (0)
Data (chiefly meteorological) : bearing upon the selection of stations for observing the total eclipse of 1893, April 16 (0)
THE EPIDIASCOPE. (1905) (0)
On a Convenient Method of adjusting a Polar Axis to the Diurnal Motion (1898) (0)
Observations of the Red Spot on Jupiter (0)
The Total Eclipse of 1914 (0)
Observations of Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter (0)
Humidity and Chronometer Rates (1884) (0)
Todd, David P. Apr. 15, 1891 [to S. Watson] (1891) (0)
Stars and telescopes (0)
THE DEARBORN OBSERVATORY. (1884) (0)
Telescopic Search for the Trans-Neptunian Planet (0)
RESEARCHES ON ASTRONOMICAL SPECTRUM-PHOTOGRAPHY. (1884) (0)
RESEARCHES IN STELLAR PARALLAX. (1885) (0)
On the accurate adjustment of stationary coronagraphs with despatch (0)
NOTE ON THE OBSERVATIONS OF THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, 1882, AT THE LICK OBSERVATORY. (1883) (0)
The periodical variability of Algol (1881) (0)
The Total Eclipse of Last August in Japan (1887) (0)
Observations of the transit of Mercury, 1907 November 13 (0)
Notes on the Preparation of Reticles (1900) (0)
Early History of Astronomy at Amherst College (1903) (0)
Solar eclipse of March 16. (1885) (0)
Local predictions for the total eclipse of the Sun, 1907, Jan. 13-14, in Turkestan and Mongolia (1906) (0)
Domes Mounted on Cannon-Balls (1885) (0)
The British Nautical Almanac (1885) (0)
Hitherto untried form of mounting, either equatorial or altazimuth, for a telescope of exceptional size, either refractor or reflector, in which telescope, observing-floor and dome are combined in one (1902) (0)
Observation of Eclipses of Jupiter's Satellites (0)
Note on Dr. Schwarzschild's photographic Zenith Camera. (0)
Observations of the Total Solar Eclipse in Tripoli, Barbary (1905) (0)
Todd, David P. July 1, 1891 [list] (1891) (0)
Observations of Eclipses of the Satellites of Jupiter, made at Washington during the Opposition of 1879 (0)
The United States Scientific Expedition to West Africa, 1889 (1890) (0)

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