Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier (22 December 1812, in
Paris
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– 5 April 1872) was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as
M. Laugier.
Early life and education
The son of
André Laugier
André Laugier (1 August 1770, in Lisieux – 19 April 1832, in Paris) was a French chemist, pharmacist and mineralogist. He was a cousin to famed chemist Antoine François Fourcroy and the father of astronomer Paul Auguste Ernest Laugier (18 ...
, a chemist (1 August 1770 – 9 April 1832), studied astronomy under
François Arago
Dominique François Jean Arago ( ca, Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (; Catalan: ''Francesc Aragó'', ; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of t ...
.
Career
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.
Laugier (Ernest), Présidents de l'Académie des sciences
Work
* Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Note sur la première comète de 1301”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 15 (1842), 949-95
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* 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), 1003-100
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* Laugier, Paul-Auguste-Ernest, “Mémoire sur quelque comètes anciennes”, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des sciences, 22 (1846), 148-15
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– 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), 183-18
Gallica
See also
* La Recherche de l'Absolu
References
External links
Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier (1812–1872), Gloubik Sciences
* Obituary: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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, Vol. 33 (1873), pp. 211–21
* Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas
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History
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, 1902 ed., New York, D. Appleton & Co., a publication now in the public domain
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E. Laugier
@ Astrophysics Data System
1812 births
1872 deaths
Scientists from Paris
19th-century French astronomers
French physicists
École Polytechnique alumni
Recipients of the Lalande Prize
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