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   Loewy
   Maurice Moritz
   M. L. ; Lœwy ;
   Mathilde
   
   1833 in Vienna
   1907
   Paris
   M.L.'s Jewish parents moved to Vienna in 1841 to escape the antisemitism of their home town
   
   assistant at the Vienna Observatory, directed by Karl L. Littrow, working on celestial mechanics.
   France
   Atlas Photographique de la Lune (Paris 1896-1910, with 71 photographs that together map the moon's surface, completed over 14 years) ;
   Observatoire de Paris (direct.1896) ; Bureau des Longitudes (memb.1872); Académie des Sciences (Fellow1873); Royal Astronomical Society (goldmedal188
   astronomer -> Pierre Henri Puiseux (1805-1922) ; photographer ->Charles Le Morvan (1865-1933) ;
   astronomical photography
   http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k94976h ; www.getaddictedto.com/atlas-photographique-de-la-lune-for-ipad/#sthash.o8PyL6HP.dpbs
   http://mappeditions.com/publications/atlas-photographique-de-la-lune ; www.josephbellows.com/artists/loewy-and-puiseux/bio/ ; www.manfredholl.de/kart4
   Poggendorff: Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch, 1898; Corey Keller (ed.) Fotografie & d.Unsichtbare 2009: fig. 54; Q.Bajac: Dans le champs des Étoiles, 2000:10;126
   cf. also http://modernart.sanjeev.net/the-moon-from-atlas-photographique-de-la-lune-by-maurice-lo-1130/ ; obits see http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&db_key=PRE&qform=AST&arxiv_sel=astro-ph&arxiv_sel=cond-mat&arxiv_sel=cs&arxiv_sel=gr-qc&arxiv_sel=hep-ex&arxiv_sel=hep-la
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