Edouard Caspari
Chrétien Édouard Caspari (born September 13, 1840 in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines , † 1918 ) was a French marine engineer and astronomer.
Caspari attended the École polytechnique from 1860 . From 1862 to 1902 he was a marine engineer (Ingénieur Hydrographe) who measured the French coasts (including the Seine Bay, Bassin d'Arcachon), the Gulf of Tonkin, Guadeloupe and the Gulf of Siam. In addition, he made meteorological observations and gave astronomy courses for the Service Hydrographique de la Marine, which resulted in a textbook. For his book on marine chronometers (published in German in 1893) he received the Prix Montijon of the Academie des Sciences in 1878. He wrote the article Clocks in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences . In 1905 he was president of the Société astronomique de France . He was also director of the naval depot's map department.
Fonts
- Cours d'astronomie pratique - application à la geographie et a la navigation , 2 volumes, Gauthier-Villars 1889
- Studies on chronometers and nautical instruments , Bautzen 1893 (German translation from Les Chronomètres de Marine , 1884, Gauthier-Villars, 203 pages)
- with Charles-Martin Ploix Météorologie nautique , Paris, Imprimerie Nationale 1874
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| SURNAME | Caspari, Edouard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Caspari, Chrétien Édouard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French marine engineer and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1918 |