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LAMONT, JOHANN VON (1805–1879)

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LAMONT, JOHANN VON (1805–1879) , Scottish-See also:German astronomer and magnetician, was See also:born at See also:Braemar, See also:Aberdeen-See also:shire, on the 13th of See also:December 1805. He was sent at the See also:age of twelve to be educated at the Scottish monastery in See also:Regensburg, and apparently never afterwards returned to his native See also:country. His strong See also:bent for scientific studies was recognized by the See also:head of the monastery, P. Deasson, on whose recommendation he was admitted in 1827 to the then new See also:observatory of Bogenhausen (near See also:Munich), where he worked under J. Soldner. After the See also:death of his See also:chief in 1835 he was, on H. C. See also:Schumacher's recommendation, appointed to succeed him as director of the observatory. In 1852 he became See also:professor of See also:astronomy at the university of Munich, and held both these posts till his death, which took See also:place on the 6th of See also:August 1879. Lamont was a member of the See also:academies of See also:Brussels, See also:Upsala and See also:Prague, of the Royal Society of See also:Edinburgh, of the See also:Cambridge Philosophical Society and of many other learned corporations. Among his contributions to astronomy may be noted his eleven See also:zone-catalogues of 34,674 stars, his measurements, in 1836-1837, of nebulae and clusters, and his determination of the See also:mass of See also:Uranus from observations of its satellites (Mem. Astron.

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Soc. xi. 51, 1838). A magnetic observatory was equipped at Bogen- See also:Atlas range the See also:food of this See also:bird is said to consist chiefly of the Testudo mauritanica, which " it carries to some height in the See also:air, and lets fall on a See also:stone to break the See also:shell " (See also:Ibis, 1859, p. 177). It was the Apra and 44v,1 of See also:Greek classical writers. hausen in 1840 through his initiative; he executed comprehensive magnetic surveys 1849–1858; announced the magnetic decennial See also:period in 185o, and his See also:discovery of See also:earth-currents in 1862. His Handbuch See also:des Erdmagnetismus (See also:Berlin, 1849) is a See also:standard See also:work on the subject. See Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (S. See also:Gunther); V. J. Schrift, Astr. Gesellschaft, xv.

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Roy. Astr. Society, xl. 203; Nature, xx. 425; Quart. See also:Journal See also:Meteor. Society, vi. 72; Proceedings Roy. Society of Edinburgh, x. 358; The Times (12 Aug., 1879); See also:Sir F. Ronalds's See also:Cat. of Books See also:relating to See also:Electricity and See also:Magnetism, pp. 281-283; Royal Society's Cat, of Scientific Papers, vols. iii. vii.

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