~ David Rittenhouse ~

The preeminent American scientist of his age, David Rittenhouse was at once an internationally famed astronomer, master craftsman of scientific instruments, surveyor and patriot. His mechanical models of the solar system, precision clocks, surveyor's theodolites, compasses, and optical lenses were of the highest order available in the world. Although he received little formal education and was a man of ordinary means, his genius was a primary force of colonial American achievements in science, known as the "Age of Enlightenment." . . .


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AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
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Projection of the Transit of Venus
Norristown Pennsylvania  June 3, 1769
 
 

       

Tour Rittenhouse Square; Philadelphia

 


Rittenhouse
Compass

 

 




Information from National Surveyor's Hall of Fame
 

 

The Brothers Rittenhouse
An historical paper of clock-makers David and Benjamin Rittenhouse.

   


Link to More About David Rittenhouse

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