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ANGELO SECCHI (1818-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 568 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SECCHI (1818-1878)  , See also:Italian astronomer, was See also:born on the 29th of See also:June 1818 at Reggio in See also:Lombardy, and entered the Society of Jesus at an See also:early See also:age . In 1849 he was appointed director of the See also:observatory of the Collegio Romano, which was rebuilt in 1853; there he devoted himself with See also:great perseverance to researches in See also:physical See also:astronomy and See also:meteorology till his See also:death at See also:Rome on the 26th of See also:February 1878 . The results of See also:Secchi's observations are contained in a great number of papers and See also:memoirs . .From about 1864 he occupied himself almost exclusively with spectrum See also:analysis, both of stars (Catalogo delle stelle di cui si b determinato lo spettro luminoso, See also:Paris, 1867, 8vo; " Sugli spettri prismatici delle stelle fisse," two parts, 1868, in the Atti della See also:Soc . Ital.) and of the See also:sun (Le Soleil, Paris, 187o, 8vo; 2nd ed., 1877) . For a See also:list of his publications see See also: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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