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Charles Sanders Peirce
Charles Sanders Peirce, c. 1870.
Charles Sanders Peirce was the son of Sarah Mills and Benjamin Peirce. His father, Benjamin Peirce, was a prominent American mathematician and astronomer who served as the Perkins professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University.12