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LAMONT, JOHANN VON (18051879) , Scottish-German astronomer and magnetician, was born at Braemar, Aberdeen-shire, on the 13th of December 1805. He was sent at the age of twelve to be educated at the Scottish monastery in Regensburg, and apparently never afterwards returned to his native country. His strong bent for scientific studies was recognized by the head of the monastery, P. Deasson, on whose recommendation he was admitted in 1827 to the then new observatory
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Cambridge Philosophical Society and of many other learned corporations. Among his contributions to astronomy may be noted his eleven zone-catalogues of 34,674 stars, his measurements, in 1836-1837, of nebulae and clusters, and his determination of the mass of Uranus from observations of its satellites (Mem. Astron. Soc. xi. 51, 1838). A magnetic observatory was equipped at Bogen-Atlas range the food of this bird is said to consist chiefly of the Testudo mauritanica, which " it carries to some height in the air, and lets fall on a stone to break the shell " ( Ibis
hausen in 1840 through his initiative; he executed comprehensive magnetic surveys 18491858; announced the magnetic decennial period in 185o, and his discovery of earth-currents in 1862. His Handbuch des Erdmagnetismus (Berlin, 1849) is a standard work
See Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (S. Gunther); V. J. Schrift, Astr. Gesellschaft, xv. 6o; Monthly Notices Roy. Astr. Society, xl. 203; Nature, xx. 425; Quart. Journal Meteor. Society, vi. 72; Proceedings Roy. Society of Edinburgh, x. 358; The Times (12 Aug., 1879); Sir F. Ronalds's Cat. of Books relating to Electricity and Magnetism, pp. 281-283; Royal Society's Cat, of Scientific Papers, vols. iii. vii.End of Article: LAMONT, JOHANN VON (18051879) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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