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Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy.
Published by Cambridge: University Press, 1931., 1931
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xi, 414 pp; 146 figs. Original cloth. Near Fine. Copy of Charles Nelson Haskins (1874-1943), with his Hanover, N.H. bookplate. 'In 1927, during the planning of the Fisher Ames Baker Library at Dartmouth College, a then-anonymous donor made a gift of two thousand dollars 'to furnish and equip a room in the Library to contain the surviving books of the first library of the College and to serve as a memorial to Bezaleel Woodward, its first Librarian and its first Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.' The proposal was warmly supported by Ernest Martin Hopkins, President of the College, and by its architect Jens Fredrick Larson. The man who initiated the project with his donation was Charles Nelson Haskins, professor of mathematics. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts (1874), and a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1897), Haskins received a doctorate in mathematics from Harvard in 1901. He joined the Dartmouth College faculty in 1909 as assistant professor of mathematics, and was appointed professor of mathematics in 1916, a position he held until his death in 1942. A multifaceted man, Haskins was an excellent linguist, proficient in a dozen languages, with a strong preference for German. He also was an expert carpenter, following in the steps of his father Herbert Haskins, grandfather Orville Haskins, great-grandfather Joshua Haskins Jr., and great-great-grandfather Joshua Sr., all professional cabinetmakers' (Dick Hoefnagel & Virginia L. Close, 'Charles N. Haskins and the Woodward Room at Baker Library', Dartmouth College Library Bulletin, Nov. 1998).
