gould benjamin apthorp 1824 1896 (4 Ergebnisse)

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

4to, 28.8cm. Pp. [iv,]261, numerous tables throughout. Hardbound, orig. cloth. Very good.

8vo. xiv, 655, [1] pp. Numerous tables (1 folding). Original full blind- and gilt-stamped maroon cloth. Very good+. First edition. Appointed in 1862 actuary to the United States Sanitary Commission, Gould issued in 1869 an important volume of Investigations in the Military and Anthropological Statistics of American Soldiers. / Following the Civil War, the government determined to take a statistical survey of soldiers and make charts outlining the recorded results for White, colored, Indian, or student soldiers (as recorded). The U.S. Sanitary Commission was interested in the further health needs of those who had survived. / One standard of measurement was the body. A chart outlining the dimensions of mixed races for 863 former soldiers was broken down into 5 chief categories: Naked, Free States/Slave States; Half Naked Slave States; Clothed Free States/Slave States; In usual vigor . . . ; Not in usual vigor . . . Further charts show measures recorded for the head size, weight, strength, vision, respiration, pulse, pulmonary capacity, education, etc. / Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.