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Aymar De La Baume Pluvinel
Count Aymar Eugène de la Baume Pluvinel (6 November 1860 – 18 July 1938) was a French astronomer and professor in the ''Grandes écoles SupOptique'' (''École supérieure d'optique''). He belonged to an old noble family, whose most famous descendant was Antoine de Pluvinel, King Louis XIII of France, Louis XIII's master of equitation. He was a pioneer of astrophotography on the French expedition to Haiti to observe the Transit of Venus, 1882, transit of Venus in 1882 and on several French expeditions to observer solar eclipses. He was a member of the Société Astronomique de France from 1889 and its president from 1913 to 1919. He was awarded the Valz Prize in 1909 by the French Academy of Sciences. In 1923, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society. References External linksLA BAUME PLUVINEL Aymar de, Eugène Aymar 1860 births 1938 deaths 19th-century French astronomers Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astronomy
Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest include planets, natural satellite, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxy, galaxies, and comets. Relevant phenomena include supernova explosions, gamma ray bursts, quasars, blazars, pulsars, and cosmic microwave background radiation. More generally, astronomy studies everything that originates beyond atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere. Cosmology is a branch of astronomy that studies the universe as a whole. Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences. The early civilizations in recorded history made methodical observations of the night sky. These include the Babylonian astronomy, Babylonians, Greek astronomy, Greeks, Indian astronomy, Indians, Egyptian astronomy, Egyptians, Chinese astronomy, Chinese, Maya civilization, Maya, and many anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
