Charles Augustus Young
Charles Augustus Young
(
December 15
1834
–
January 3
1908
) was an American
astronomer
. He graduated from
Dartmouth
and later became a professor there in
1865
, remaining until
1877
when he went to
Princeton
. He observed
solar eclipses
and worked on
spectroscopy
of the
Sun
. He was a successful educator. He wrote a popular and widely-used series of astronomy textbooks, including
Manual of Astronomy
. Many years later in
1927
, when
Henry Norris Russell
,
Raymond Smith Dugan
and
John Quincy Stewart
wrote their own two-volume textbook, they entitled it
Astronomy: A Revision of Youngs Manual of Astronomy
. Young, Charles Augustus Young, Charles Augustus Young, Charles Augustus
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