Lockyer, Joseph Norman (1836-1920)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3818. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Civil servant, professor at the Solar Physics Observatory, Kensington (later moved to Cambridge), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England. Attracted to astronomy by an observation of the annular solar eclipse of 1858, erected an observatory at his home in Hampstead, observed Mars. Lockyer showed spectroscopically that phenomena seen during a total eclipse (such as the prominences) could be seen in d...

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