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Charles Henry Davis ((1807-01-16)January 16, 1807 – (1877-02-18)February 18, 1877) was a self-educated American astronomer and rear admiral of the United States Navy. While working for the United States Coast Survey, he researched tides and currents, and located an uncharted shoal that had caused wrecks off of the coast of New York. During the American Civil War, he commanded the Western Gunboat Flotilla, where he won an important engagement in the First Battle of Memphis before capturing enemy supplies on a successful expedition up the Yazoo River. Davis was also one of the founders of the National Academy of Sciences in 1863 and he wrote several scientific books. (From Wikipedia) More about Charles Henry Davis:
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3 additional books about Charles Henry Davis in the extended shelves:Books by Charles Henry Davis: Additional books by Charles Henry Davis in the extended shelves:![[X-Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/infouc.gif) Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: The coast survey of the United States (Gideon & co., printers, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: The Coast Survey of the United States (Metcalf, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Communications and reports in relation to the surveys of Boston Harbor (J.E. Farwell and Company, 1863), also by United States. Commission on Boston Harbor, A. D. Bache, and Joseph Gilbert Totten (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: General examination of the Pacific Ocean (G.P.O., 1869), also by Charles Philippe de Kerhallet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Inter-oceanic railroads and canals ([G.P.O.], 1866), also by United States Naval Observatory and United States. Congress 1865-1866). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Narrative of the north polar expedition U.S. ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding. (Government Printing Office, 1876), also by George M. Robeson and United States Navy Department (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Narrative of the North Polar expedition : U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1876., 1876), also by United States Navy Department, H. H. Nichols, Henry J. Morgan, T. W. Smillie, Emil Schumann, Emil Bessels, Richard W. D. Bryan, Hubbard C. Chester, George E. Tyson, and Charles Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Narrative of the North Polar Expedition. U.S. Ship Polaris, Captain Charles Francis Hall commanding. (Tribner, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Pacific Ocean. (E. & G.W. Blunt, 1861), also by Charles Philippe de Kerhallet (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Remarks upon the establishment of an American prime meridian. (Metcalf and company, printers, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Report on interoceanic canals and railroads between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. (Govt. Print. Off., 1867), also by United States Naval Observatory, Cary Cooper, Raymond D. Cooper, Ray and Cary Cooper Science Collection, and Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Report on the harbor of Charleston (From the printing office of Councell & Daggett, 1852), also by A. D. Bache, John D. Kurtz, Matthew Fontaine Maury, John Newland Maffitt, and S.C.) Charleston Chamber of Commerce (Charleston (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Surveys of Boston Harbor (J.E. Farwell and Company, 1862), also by United States. Commission on Boston Harbor, A. D. Bache, Joseph Gilbert Totten, and Boston City Council (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Tables of Melpomene (Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, 1860), also by Ernst Schubert and United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office (page images at HathiTrust)
- Davis, Charles Henry, 1807-1877: Theory of the motion of the heavenly bodies moving about the sun in conic sections: a translation of Gauss's "Theoria motus." With an appendix (Little, Brown and company, 1857), also by Carl Friedrich Gauss (page images at HathiTrust)
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