Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie (1820–1888) was a Belgian astronomer and journalist. The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends
Life
He was born in Havre, Belgium (a small city near Mons). The Kingdom of Belgium is a Country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters as well as those Mons ( Dutch: Bergen, Picard: Mont) is a Walloon City and municipality located in the Belgian From 1842, he worked as a voluntary assistant at the Brussels observatory and began writing papers. He travelled a lot during his career (to Paris, the United Kingdom, United States, and Jamaica). Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Jamaica (ˈdʒəˈmeɪkə} is an Island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea.
Works
His published works include
- Des turbines, de leur construction, du calcul de leur puissance et de leur application à l'industrie (On Turbines, Their Construction, Calculation of Their Power, and Their Application in Industry / Paris, L. M. Augustin, 1839) his first published work, issued when he was 19 years old;
- Atlas de toutes les étoiles visibles à l'oeil nu, formé d'après l'observation directe, dans les deux hémisphères (Atlas of All Stars Visible To the Naked Eye, Developed From Direct Observation in Two Hemispheres / Mons, Belgium, Hector Manceaux, 1878)
- Vade-mecum de l'astronome (The Astronomer's Handbook / Brussels, F. Hayez, 1882);
- Bibliographie générale de L'astronomie depuis L'origine de L'imprimerie Jusqu'en 1880 (General bibliography of Astronomy From Its First Printed Works Until 1880 / Brussels, F. Hayez, 1882-1887); and
- Règles de climatologie (Rules of Climatology /Brussels, Jamar, no date).
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