| LC control no. | n 79128976 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796 |
| Variant(s) | Citizen of Philadelphia, 1732-1796 Rittenhouse, D. (David), 1732-1796 |
| Associated place | Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Birth date | 1732-04-08 |
| Death date | 1796-06-26 |
| Place of birth | Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| Affiliation | American Philosophical Society |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomer Inventor Clockmaker Mathematician Surveyor Scientific instrument craftsman Public official |
| Found in | Lessing, G.E. Lucy Sampson, 1789: t.p. (a citizen of Philadelphia) [info. from InU] Virginia almanack, for the year ... (Williamsburg, Va.), 1777: t.p. (D. Rittenhouse, Philo.) Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c., 1813: page 540 (born 8 April 1732; died 26 June 1796) Wikipedia, 8 January 2013 (David Rittenhouse (born April 8, 1732 in Rittenhouse Town, a small village near Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died June 26, 1796) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official) |
| Associated language | eng |
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