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Pierce, Benjamin (Educator author was born April)

educator, author, was born April 4, 1809, in Salem, Mass.

He was president of the American Institution for the Advancement of Science in 1853; one of the council which established Dudley Observatory in 1855; superintendent of the United States coast survey from 1867 to 1874. He was a contributor to several scientific journals, and was the author of Treatise on Analytic Mechanics; Associative Algebra; and Theory of the Tans of Comets. He discovered and announced the fluidity of Saturn's rings in 1851, and prepared a volume of lunar tables for the Nautical Almanac.