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SECCHI, ANGELO (1818-1878)

This article appears in Volume V24, Page 568 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SCY-SHA
SECCHI, ANGELO (1818-1878) , Italian astronomer, was born on the 29th of June 1818 at Reggio in Lombardy, and entered the Society of Jesus at an early age. In 1849 he was appointed director of the
observatory
  of the Collegio Romano, which was rebuilt in 1853; there he devoted himself with
great
  perseverance to researches in
physical
  astronomy and meteorology till his death at Rome on the 26th of
February
  1878.
The results of
Secchi
 's observations are contained in a
great
  number of papers and memoirs. .From about 1864 he occupied himself almost exclusively with spectrum
analysis
 , both of stars (Catalogo delle stelle di cui si b determinato lo spettro luminoso, Paris, 1867, 8vo; " Sugli spettri prismatici delle stelle fisse," two parts, 1868, in the Atti della Soc. Ital.) and of the sun (Le Soleil, Paris, 187o, 8vo; 2nd ed., 1877).
For a
list
  of his publications see
Poggendorff
 , Biographisch-Literarische; also see Monthly Notices R.A.S., No. 39, and Carlo Bricarelli, " Vita e opere di A.
Secchi
 ," Nuovi Linc. Mem. (1888), vol. 4.


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