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Early Life of C.S. Pierce (September 10, 1839-April 9, 1914)
C.S. Pierce was born September 10th, 1839, in Massachusetts. He was one of four siblings of a mathematician and astronomer who worked at Harvard University. After graduating Suma Cum Laude with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Harvard in 1863, he was soon employed by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. He carried out a multitude of surveys and geodetic inquiries C.S. Pierce would later become one of the founding members of the Smithsonian. -
C.S. Pierce (1839-1914)
C.S. Peirce joined his father in a geodetic connection between both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, this project was meant to deliver a more thorough determination of the ellipticity of Earth. Pierce both contributed and practiced the theory of the swinging pendulum as a method of determining Earth’s gravitational force from 1873 until his resignation in 1886 -
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Further Contributions of C.S. Pierce (1839-1914)
Pierce spent his entire life building and developing his ideas on logic. He was a realist who later became a founder of pragmatism. He believed in making thoughts clearer. He felt that the concept or value of an idea was strictly determined by the ability to experiment and measure that concept. Pragmatism became very popular in the early 1900s but unfortunately, by then Pierce no longer agreed with Pragmatism and what it had become.
