Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier
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Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (22 December 1812 in Paris
- 5 April 1872) was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier
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The son of Andre Laugier, a chemist (August 1, 1770-April 9, 1832), studied astronomy under François Arago
. He then obtained a post in the observatory at Paris, made important discoveries in regard to magnetism, comets, eclipses, meteors, and sunspots, and made improvements in astronomical clocks. Laugier determined the exact latitude of the Paris observatory (1853), correcting previous errors. He published a catalogue of fifty-three nebulae, and another (1857) of the declination of 140 stars, and contributed astronomical papers to the Connaissance du Temps. He was long associated with Arago in researches on terrestrial physics, and was for some years president of the Academy of Sciences
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
- 5 April 1872) was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier
Laugier
Laugier is a French surname, and may refer to:* Léonce Laugier, Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic* M...
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The son of Andre Laugier, a chemist (August 1, 1770-April 9, 1832), studied astronomy under François Arago
François Arago
François Jean Dominique Arago , known simply as François Arago , was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.-Early life and work:...
. He then obtained a post in the observatory at Paris, made important discoveries in regard to magnetism, comets, eclipses, meteors, and sunspots, and made improvements in astronomical clocks. Laugier determined the exact latitude of the Paris observatory (1853), correcting previous errors. He published a catalogue of fifty-three nebulae, and another (1857) of the declination of 140 stars, and contributed astronomical papers to the Connaissance du Temps. He was long associated with Arago in researches on terrestrial physics, and was for some years president of the Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research...
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Work
- Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Note sur la première comète de 1301”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 15 (1842), 949-951 Gallica
- Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Notice sur l’apparition de la comète de Halley en 1378”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 16 (1843), 1003-1006 Gallica.
- Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Mémoire sur quelque comètes anciennes”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 22 (1846), 148-156 Gallica – orbital elements of the comets of 568, 770, 1337, 1433, 1468, 1472 & 1506.
- Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Mémoire sur quelques anciennes apparitions de la comète de Halley, inconnues jusqu’ici”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 23 (1846), 183-189 Gallica.
External links
- Obituary: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 33 (1873), p. 190 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0033//0000211.000.html
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