Word: winlock
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Dates: during 1875-1875
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Professor Winlock graduated in 1845 at Shelby College, Kentucky, and was immediately appointed Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in that institution. He held this office till 1852, when he removed to Cambridge and took part in the computation of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. In 1857 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy, and for several months afterwards was Assistant in the United States Naval Observatory at Washington. He was then made Superintendent of the American Ephemeris, and returned to Cambridge. He continued to perform the duties of his office until his appointment...
Professor Winlock was a member of the American Academy of Arts, of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. He received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Harvard College in 1868. His published works consist chiefly of a set of Tables of Mercury, of other publications from the office of the American Ephemeris, and of brief papers in astronomical journals and in the Proceedings of the American Academy...