Alexander Aubert

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Alexander Aubert (born May 11, 1730 in London , † October 19, 1805 ibid) was an English amateur astronomer and businessman.

Life

Alexander Aubert came from a Huguenot family who had to leave France after the edict of Nantes was repealed in 1685 and settle in London. As a teenager he was interested in astronomy, but went to Geneva for a commercial apprenticeship and later to Italy. In 1751 he returned to London and entered his father's business. In 1753 he became director and a few years later governor of the London Assurance Company.

His fortune enabled him to build two private observatories near London in the course of his life. He was particularly interested in observing planets and meteors . In 1772 Aubert was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 1793 he was accepted as an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg .

Fonts (selection)

  • Alexander Aubert: Transit of Venus over the Sun, observed June 3, 1769, by Alexander Aubert, in Austin Friars, London, three seconds of time east of St. Paul's, with a cassegrain reflector of J. Short, having a metal of two feet focal length, and magnifying about 110 times . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . tape 59 , 1769, pp. 378 , doi : 10.1098 / rstl.1769.0051 .
  • Alexander Aubert: An account of the meteors of the 18th of August and 4th of October, 1783 . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London . tape 74 , 1784, pp. 112 , doi : 10.1098 / rstl.1784.0011 .

literature

  • Théodore Aubert: Alexander Aubert, FRS Astronome, 1730–1805 . In: Royal Society Journal of the History of Science . tape 9 , no. 1 , 1951, p. 79-95 , doi : 10.1098 / rsnr.1951,0005 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Aubert, Alexander. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed March 28, 2020 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Aubert, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English amateur astronomer and businessman
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1805
Place of death London