Benjamin Peirce
Noun
Meaning
United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
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Examples
The American astronomer Benjamin Peirce seems to have adopted that terminology and to have been one of its promoters.
Waltershausen Benjamin Peirce (1809–1880) called mathematics "the science that draws necessary conclusions".
With Benjamin Peirce Agassiz found that his palaeontological labors made necessary a new basis of ichthyological classification.