Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Burritt Elijah Hinsdale E. H. B. ; 1794 in New Britain, Connecticut 1838 Houston, Texas farmer & shoemaker Elihu Burritt (1765-1xxx) mother elisabeth Hinsdale Burritt; nine younger sisters & brothers; cousin Emma Hart Willard, pioneer educator of women at Williams College (1816-1819) United States of America Atlas, accomp. E. H. B's textbook: The Geography of the Heavens (1833 and 1850) (w. six stellar maps) (1876) ; teacher in Ssanderson Academy, Ashfield, Massachussetts In later editions Burritt copied most of his figures from Alexander Jamieson’s "A Celestial Atlas" (1822) ; astronomical drawing and engraving http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?id=S-ASTROIC-X-00000075.TIF]00000075.TIF http://www.lib.umich.edu/divine-sky-artistry-astronomical-maps/atlases_work3.html A. J. Brooks: Popular Astronomy 44 (1936): 293 (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1936PA.....44..293B) ; A Connecticut schoolteacher who created his atlas as a low-cost alternative to celestial globe. 69287133
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