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	coude equatorial
		The objective of 40cm diameter and 9 m focal distance, and the mirrors were cut and polished by the Henry brothers.
		Loewy had the idea to apply to this instrument the principle of the "bent refractor" used by the German astronomers for small meridian instruments, that gets rid of these two drawbacks.
		The optical beam of the refractor is bent at right angle, using a mirror at the top, which forms an angle of 45° with the incidental rays and the reflected rays, and another mirror inclined of 45° in front of the objective.
	www.obs-nice.fr /histoire-nice_en/coude_equatorial.html (417 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - LOEWY, MAURICE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In 1872 he was appointed a member of the Bureau des Longitudes; in 1873 he was elected to the French Institute (Académie des Sciences); in the same year he became assistant director and in 1896 director of the Paris Observatory.
		Loewy since 1878 has been editor of "Ephémérides des Etoiles de Culmination Lunaire," and since 1896 of the "Rapport Annuel sur l'Etat de l'Observatoire de Paris." He has invented several important astronomical instruments, among which is especially well known his "equatorial coudé" or elbow-telescope, with which he has secured the best photographs of the moon.
		Among Loewy's numerous essays and works may be mentioned: "Nouvelles Méthodes pour la Détermination des Orbites des Comètes," 1879; "Des Eléments Fondamentaux de l'Astronomie," 1886; "De la Constance de l'Aberration et de la Réfraction," 1890; "Du Coefficient de l'Elasticité," 1892 (with Tresca); "De la Latitude et des Positions Absolues des Etoiles Fondamentales," 1895.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=523&letter=L (237 words)

	Maurice Loewy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maurice (Moritz) Loewy (April 15, 1833 – October 15, 1907) was a French astronomer.
		He further spent a decade working with Pierre Puiseux on an atlas of the Moon composed of 10,000 photographs, L’Atlas photographique de la Lune (1910), the definitive basis for lunar geography for over half a century.
		Loewy crater on the Moon is named after him and asteroid 253 Mathilde is believed to be named after his wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Loewy (302 words)

	Moon - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The fine atmosphere of the Lick observatory was well adapted to this work, and a complete photographic map of the moon on a large scale was prepared which exceeded in precision of detail any before produced.
		The most extended and elaborate work of this sort yet undertaken is that of Maurice Loewy (1833-1907) and Pierre Puiseux at the Paris observatory, of which the first part was published in 1895.
		The broken and irregular character of the surface is most evident near the boundary between the dark and illuminated portions, about the time of first quarter.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Moon (5902 words)

	Loewy & Puiseux
		Maurice Loewy (1833-1907) and Pierre Puiseux "Atlas Photographique de la Lune (in 4 volumes), Observatoire de Paris, 1896-1910 This general map of the Moon's regions was perhaps the crowning achievement of Lunar photography of the 19th century.
		Though their theory that volcanic action caused the moon's craters was disproved in the mid 1900s, their striking photogravures display the results of the accomplishments of early astronomical photographers.
		M.M. Loewy et Puiseux "Photographie Lunaire: Posidonius-Aristote-Pole Nord, March 26, 1901"
	www.schicklerart.com /space.astronomy/L_Puiseux (345 words)

	Puiseux, Pierre (1855-1928) -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
		He collaborated on a map of the sky and, with Maurice Loewy, created an photographical atlas of moon containing 6000 photos.
		A lunar crater has been named in his honor.
		Loewy, M. and Puiseux, P. Atlas Photographique de la Lune, 4 vols.
	scienceworld.wolfram.com /biography/PuiseuxPierre.html (145 words)

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		In 1873, he came into his father's fortune, and decided to carry on the tradition of the family.
		A friend of him, Maurice Loewy, who was an astronomer at the Paris Observatory convinced him that he could greatly help astronomy.
		Bischoffsheim funded the construction of two instruments for the Paris Observatory a meridian circle and an equatorial coudé, then he proposed to provide France " with a large modern observatory, equipped with the most powerful telescopes in the world and set up under the most beautiful sky".
	www.obs-nice.fr /histoire-nice_en/hist1_en.html (569 words)

	Art deco designers
		In l927 he founded an advertising agency, Alliance Graphique with Charles Loupot and Maurice Moyrand.
		Loewy studied electrical engineering in his native France before emigrating to America after serving in the First World War.
		Following a brief spell as window dresser at Macy's, he worked as a fashion illustrator on Harpers Bazaar.
	kpsec.freeuk.com /eastburytech/GCSE-Resouce/art-deco-biography.htm (5383 words)

	In Situ - N° - L’inventaire et le patrimoine de l’astronomie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		L’acteur principal de cette réforme est Maurice Loewy(1833-1907), astronome originaire de Vienne, invité par Le Verrier à l’observatoire de Paris en 1860.
		Adjoint du contre-amiral Mouchez lorsque celui-ci succède en 1878 à Le Verrier, Loewy deviendra d’ailleurs lui-même directeur de l’observatoire de Paris en 1897 et le restera jusqu’à sa mort.
		Pour justifier la création d’un important réseau d’observatoires de province, Loewy plaide auprès des instances de tutelle la nécessaire décentralisation d’une discipline trop longtemps confinée entre les murs de l’observatoire parisien.
	www.culture.gouv.fr /culture/revue-inv/insitu-ns/davoigneau/html/davoigneau.html (11671 words)

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		Maurice Loewy, né à Marienbad, en territoire tchèque, arriva à Vienne à l’âge de 8 ans où sa famille s’était réfugiée pour fuir les persécutions antisémites sévissant en Hongrie où elle habitait.
		Le Directeur de l’Observatoire de Vienne, Karl L. Littrow qui était en relations avec Le Verrier, obtint de ce dernier qu’il accueille Loewy à Paris en 1860.
		Le 15 octobre 1907, en plein Conseil des Observatoires, réuni au Ministère de l’Instruction Publique, pour la désignation des nouveaux directeurs des observatoires de Marseille et d’Alger, au moment même ou il parlait en faveur d’un des candidats, Loewy s’effondra, terrassé par une crise cardiaque.
	www.obs-nice.fr /histoire-nice/loewy.htm (404 words)

	RedOrbit - Science - The Shadow Effect and the Case of Felix Tisserand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A less widely known project, but one whose influence extended through the first years of the space age, was a superb photographic atlas of the Moon.
		As director, Tisserand secured funding for the Atlas Photographique de la Lune, which was constructed by Maurice Loewy and Pierre Henri Puiseux, using a 60- centimeter telescope.
		By some accounts the atlas was the finest work of its kind until the 1960s.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=58939 (3106 words)

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		All used Gautier mounts and optics by Paul & Prosper Henry.
		Coude idea from Maurice Loewy 1871, fixed eyepiece, no dome needed, but complex mechanism to adjust declination.
		'Atlas de la lune', Loewy & Puiseux, 1896- 1910, used the Paris astrograph.
	home.europa.com /~telscope/tsfrance.txt (2865 words)

	Register-Mail.com - Galesburg Register-Mail Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Front Page Local Police Births Tom Loewy Tom Wilson asap
		ALPHA - Maurice D. Peterson, 76, Alpha, died Thursday (June 9, 2005) in OSF St. Mary Medical Center, Galesburg.
		He was born Nov. 15, 1928, in Alexis, the son of Glen and Mabel Peterson.
	www.register-mail.com /stories/061005/OBI_B6LL1JJF.GID.shtml (304 words)

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