Pons, Jean-Louis (1761-1831)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3932. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Peyre, France, joined the Observatory at Marseilles as concierge, becoming an astronomer there. Like Australian supernova-finder Robert Evans, he remembered the star fields that he observed and recognized changes; this enabled him to discover comets at the rate of about one per year from 1801 until 1827. He suggested to J F ENCKE that a comet found by him was one already discovered by Enc...

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