Chester Lyman
American educator, clergyman, astronomer, and surveyor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Chester Smith Lyman was an American teacher, clergyman and astronomer. Early life and education He was born in Manchester, Connecticut, to Chester and Mary Smith Lyman. Chester is the descendant of Richard Lyman, a settler who arrived in America in 1631. Chester's early education was in a country school, but at an early age he showed a strong interest in astronomy and the sciences. By 1833 he had gained admittance to Yale, and graduated in 1837. In his junior year he became editor of the Yale Literary Magazine and he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served for two years as Superintendent of Ellington School, then studied theology at the Union and Yale seminaries. For health reasons he then began to travel.
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- On Venus as a luminous ring (1875) (1)
- Notice of Dr. Gould's report on the trans-Atlantic longitude (1870) (1)
- Gold of California (1850) (0)
- On the transit instrument as a substitute for the zenith telescope in determining latitude, and on the latitude of New Haven (1860) (0)
- The Gold Rush: Extracts from the Diary of C. S. Lyman 1848-1849 (0)
- The Board of Managers of the Winchester Observatory Hereby report tot he President and Fellows of Yale College (0)
- Scientific education in its relations to industry. An address delivered at the twenty-first anniversary of the Sheffield Scientific School ... 1867. (0)
- A new form of wave apparatus (1868) (0)
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