Charles A. Schott

1826 – 1901

• Transcontinental triangulation and the American arc of the parallel
• An enquiry into the variation of the compass off the Bahama Islands, at the time of the landfall of Columbus in 1492
• Azimuth determinations by micrometric measurements on a close circumpolar star
• Determination of the astronomical latitude of a station by means of the zenith telescope
• Determination of time by means of the transit instrument
• Secular variation of the magnetic declination in the United States and at some foreign stations
• Tables and results of the precipitation, in rain and snow, in the United States
• Tables, distribution, and variations of the atmospheric temperature in the United States, and some adjacent parts of America
• The eastern oblique arc of the United States and osculating spheroid