David Rittenhouse
Sign in to saveAmerican astronomer (*1732 – †1796)
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Vinony catalogs David Rittenhouse in its Fellows of the Royal Society collection (9,360 entries). It also appears in American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Vinony's link graph records 159 inbound references to David Rittenhouse, and connects out to Age of Enlightenment, Sun and physics.
Vinony files it under 1732 births, 1796 deaths and 18th-century American astronomers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 April 1732
- Died
- 26 June 1796
- Works
- 71
Top works
- A brief account of the malignant fever which prevailed in Philadelphia, in the year 1793
- A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia
- Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1784
- Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender auf das 1785ste Jahr Christi ..
- Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender, auf das 1789ste Jahr Christi ..
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,647x
- Basic local alignment search tool
· 1990 · cited 80,799x
- The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations.
· 1986 · cited 63,586x
- Evaluating Structural Equation Models with Unobservable Variables and Measurement Error
· 1981 · cited 63,326x
- Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement
· 2009 · cited 58,708x
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Quotes
- “I have no health for a soldier, and as I have no expectation of serving my country in that way, I am spending my time in the old trifling manner, and am so taken with optics, that I do not know whether, if the enemy should invade this part of the country, as Archimedes was slain while making geometrical figures on the sand, so I should die making a telescope.”
- “The direct tendency of (Astronomy) is to dilate the heart with universal benevolence, and to enlarge its views.”
- “The most noted mathematician and astronomer of early times [in the U.S.] was not a professor in a college, nor had he been trained within college walls. We have reference to David Rittonhouse.”
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- date of birth
- 1732-04-08
- date of death
- 1796-06-26
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- David Rittenhouse
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- David Rittenhouse
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