Angelo Secchi [El P. Angel Sechi] (28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian Catholic priest, astronomer by the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star. From the book La ciencia y sus hombres : vidas de los sabios ilustres desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XIX T. 3 [Science and its men: lives of the illustrious sages from antiquity to the 19th cent
Angelo Secchi [El P. Angel Sechi] (28 June 1818 – 26 February 1878) was an Italian Catholic priest, astronomer by the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star. From the book La ciencia y sus hombres : vidas de los sabios ilustres desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XIX T. 3 [Science and its men: lives of the illustrious sages from antiquity to the 19th century Vol 3] By by Figuier, Louis, (1819-1894); Casabó y Pagés, Pelegrín, n. 1831 Published in Barcelona by D. Jaime Seix, editor , 1879 (Imprenta de Baseda y Giró)
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