Enrique Legrand Carriguisi, Uruguayan poet, astronomer
and mathematician (Montevideo 12 August 1861 – Montevideo 23 October 1936) Authored 22 works and scientific publications Calculated the orbit of Viscara comet (1901) Invented a system of repeating prisms applied to sextants Prismes réiterateurs appliqués au sextant (1898) Developed a graphical method for predicting Sun occultations and eclipses Método grafico para la predicción de
ocultaciones y eclipses de Sol (1906) OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS Loi du rayonemment thermique solaire. Bol.
Colegio Pio (1897) Sommations par une formule d’Euler
(1911) Sobre Wallis y sus metodos de interpolación
y dos formulas para el calculo logarítmico a 4 decimas de las funciones
eulerianas (1919) Determinación exacta de la latitud y del tiempo en el sextante (1927) His son, Carlos Maria Diego Enrique Legrand Lasserre, botanist (Montevideo 01 November 1901 –
Montevideo 06 December 1982) Gained international recognition on Portulaca genus and Myrtaceae family Described 1 genus, 3 subgenera, 19 sections, 27 subsections,
6 series, 169 species, 2 subspecies, 80 varieties, 10 forms and 11 combinations HONORS Legrandia Kausel 1944
(Myrtaceae) LINKS http://www.mec.gub.uy/munhina/pdf/PE40.pdf (bibliography and taxa)
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