Quote of the day
We inherit plots... There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Born: September 27, 1824
Died: November 26, 1896 (aged 72)
Bio: Benjamin Apthorp Gould was a pioneering American astronomer. He is noted for creating the Astronomical Journal, discovering the Gould Belt, and for founding of the Argentine National Observatory and the Argentine National Weather Service.
Known for:
- The Family of Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield (1895)
- Ages of U. S. Volunteer Soldiery (1866)






