Nobile, Arminio
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| Birthname | Arminio Arturo Alfonso Nobile | ||||
| born on | 12 August 1838 at 08:00 (= 08:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Naples, Italy, 40n51, 14e17 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m14e17 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   19°04'   15°38 Asc. 22°18'
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Biography
Italian astronomer, the son of Antonio Nobile, professor of Algebra at the University of Naples and astronomer at the Observatory of Capodimonte, and the poet Maria Giuseppina Guacci. In 1863, after the death of his father, he became a pupil at the observatory and the following year he was appointed assistant, along with Faustino Brioschi. He devoted himself to the study of Polar motion and variability of terrestrial latitudes and was the first to speak, in 1885, of changes in short period of geographic latitude related to the movement of the Earth's poles. He was one of the founders of the Italian Spectroscopy Society. He died in Naples on 15 June 1897.
Link to Wikipedia biography (Italian)
Events
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes from "Arminio Nobile e la misura del cielo: ovvero Le disavventure di un astronomo napoletano" by Massimo Capaccioli and Silvia Galano (Springer Science & Business Media, 2012), p. 5: "Alle otto del mattino i lamenti di Giuseppina si placarono, e il cortile della Riccia si riempi del grido libertorio di un neonato, un maschio . . . dell'anagrafe del Commune di Napoli . . . <<L'anno mille ottocento trentasei il di tredici del mese di Agosto . . . nato . . . nel giorno dodici del mese suddetto dell'anno corrente alle ore otto . . . nomi di Arminio Arturo Alfonso Nobile. . . Attenendoci a quanto riportato dalla maggior parte dei documenti raccolti, abbiamo ritenuto di poter considerare come più probabile per l'anno della sua nascita il 1838."
Translation: At eight o'clock in the morning the lamentations of Giuseppina subsided, and the courtyard of Riccia filled with the cry of a newborn baby, a boy... from the Registry of the Commune of Naples... "In the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six on the thirteen of the month of August... [was born] on the twelfth of this month at the eighth hour ... [a boy] named Arminio Arturo Alfonso Noble." . . . [Despite the birth certificate stating 1836,] following what is reported in most of the documents, we consider that the most likely year of birth is 1838."
Categories
- Vocation : Science : Astronomy
