Everything about Pietro Baracchi totally explained
Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto Baracchi (
25 February 1851 –
23 July 1926) was an
Italian-born astronomer, active in
Australia and Government Astronomer of
Victoria (Australia) 1900-15.
Baracchi was born in
Florence and took a degree in civil engineering. In 1876 he sailed for
New Zealand, but soon moved on to
Australia. He gained work as an assistant at the
Melbourne Observatory and was selected to be transferred to
Darwin. After completing his task there to measure
longitudes, he returned to
Melbourne and became acting government astronomer on on
30 June 1895 on
Robert L. J. Ellery's retirement.
Baracchi was awarded the Order of Knight Commander of the Crown of Italy, 1897 and was president of the
Royal Society of Victoria 1908–1909. He established the
Mount Stromlo Observatory in 1910.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Pietro Baracchi'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://pietro_baracchi.totallyexplained.com">Pietro Baracchi Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
