Charles Emile Stuyvaert

Not to be confused with: the Belgian mathematician Modeste Stuyvaert

Charles Émile Stuyvaert (21 May 1851 – 18 November 1908) was a Belgian astronomer.[1] He was a contemporary of Albert Lancaster, Louis Niesten and Jean-Charles Houzeau.[2]

Life

He was born on 21 May 1851 in Schaerbeek, Brussels.[3]

Career

He is most famous for his trip to San Antonio, Texas in 1882 along with Jean-Charles Houzeau. Together they were able to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun for the first time in human history.[4]

gollark: I mean, mercury is toxic, actually, but still.
gollark: I'm not sure why you would particularly want to smuggle mercury on anyway. I don't see why it'd do much.
gollark: I doubt it's particularly secret if random TSA people know about it, but enjoy.
gollark: Stuff like the proof of Fermat's last theorem required connecting together a bunch of disconnected-looking areas of maths in very clever ways. There's more to that than just "practice", by most definitions of practice.
gollark: If you want to solve "the most difficult solvable equation in the world" you're probably going to have to come up with a lot of new techniques.

References
  1. "Nécrologie: Charles-Émile Stuyvaert". Ciel et Terre (in French). 29: 481–482. 1908. Bibcode:1908C&T....29..513R.
  2. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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