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MOUCHEZ, AMEDEE ERNEST BARTHELEMY (1821-1892)

MOUCHEZ, AMEDEE ERNEST See also:
BARTHELEMY
BARTHELEMY, ANATOLE
BARTHELEMY, AUGUSTE MARSEILLE (1796–1867)
BARTHELEMY, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1747 or 1750-1830)
BARTHELEMY, JEAN JACQUES (1716–1795)
BARTHELEMY (1821-1892) , See also:

French astronomer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

MADRID

Madrid of French parents on the 24th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1821. At the See also:

AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of sixteen he entered the See also:

NAVAL

naval school at See also:

BREST

Brest, and after serving with distinction in various See also:

SHIPS

ships, was appointed in 1856 to the command of the " Bisson." Towards the See also:

close of the Franco-Prussian See also:

War he made an admirable See also:

defence of Brest, and his organization of the French expedition to the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of St See also:

Paul to observe the transit of See also:

VENUS

Venus in 1874 obtained his See also:

election to the See also:

Academy of Sciences and his promotion as See also:

COMMANDER

commander of the See also:

LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour. On the 27th of See also:

JUNE

June 1878 he succeeded Urbain See also:

LEVERRIER, URBAIN JEAN JOSEPH (1811—1877)

Leverrier as director of the See also:

NATIONAL

National See also:

OBSERVATORY

Observatory of See also:

Paris, and was raised to the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

REAR

rear-See also:

ADMIRAL

admiral. The fourteen years of his directorship were marked by a See also:

GREAT

great increase in the activity of the institution. The observatory grounds were enlarged; two powerful instruntits of the novel See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind known as coude. equatorials were installed; a spectroscopic See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department was established, and the gigantic task of re-observing all See also:

LALANDE, JOSEPH JEROME LEFRANCAIS DE (1732-1807)

Lalande's stars was completed. He published twenty-one volumes of Annales, as well as the first two volumes of the great See also:

CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

Catalogue de l'observatoire de Paris; founded the Bulletin astronomique, and set on See also:

FOOT

foot two See also:

SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

PRACTICAL

practical See also:

ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, one at Paris, the other at Montsouris, for the See also:

SPECIAL

special instruction of naval and military See also:

OFFICERS

officers, explorers and surveyors. His most memorable See also:

WORK

work, however, was the inauguration of See also:

INTERNATIONAL, THE

international operations for charting the heavens. The advances in stellar See also:

photography made by Paul and Prosper See also:

Henry and others suggested to him the magnificent See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of obtaining, through the collaboration of astronomers in all parts of the See also:

WORLD

world, an autographic picture of the entire See also:

SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere containing more than fifty million stars, which should faithfully See also:

RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record in future ages the See also:

state of the See also:

SKY (M. Eng. skie, cloud; O. Eng. skua, shade; connected with an Indo-European root sku, cover, whence " scum," Lat. obscurus, dark, &c.)

sky at the end of the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. Although he did not live to see its completion, he had the See also:

SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction of knowing that the ultimate success of this vast See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme was assured. He died suddenly at his See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country seat at Wissous, near Antony, on the 25th of June 1892. See See also:

Month. Notices See also:

ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

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