Peirce, Benjamin,
an American mathematician; born in Salem, Mass., April 4, 1809; studied at Harvard, where in 1833 he became professor. His paper on the discovery of Neptune attracted universal attention, and his papers on the constitution of Saturn's rings were equally remarkable. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 6, 1880.
Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912. | 
