Background
August Ludwig Busch was born on September 7, 1804, in Danzig, Prussia.
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Systematisches Verzeichniss der in der Bibliothek der Königl. Universitäts-Sternwarte zur Königsberg: Enthaltenen Bücher
https://www.amazon.com/Systematisches-Verzeichniss-Bibliothek-Universit%C3%A4ts-Sternwarte-K%C3%B6nigsberg/dp/0428524621/?tag=2022091-20
1838
Reduction of the observations made by Bradley at Kew and Wansted, to determine the quantities of aberration and nutation
https://www.amazon.com/Reduction-observations-determine-quantities-aberration/dp/B07R32SV4C/?tag=2022091-20
1838
Vorschule der darstellen den Geometrie
https://www.amazon.com/Vorschule-darstellen-Geometrie-Handbuch-Leather/dp/B07R1LC1QQ/?tag=2022091-20
1846
Ueber die totale Sonnenfinsterniss
https://www.amazon.com/totale-Sonnenfinsterniss-28-juli-Erscheinungen-Leather/dp/B07QZL33Y1/?tag=2022091-20
1851
Systematisches Verzeichniss der in der Bibliothek der Königl
https://www.amazon.com/Systematisches-Verzeichniss-Bibliothek-K%C3%B6nigl-Universit%C3%A4ts/dp/B07QVDMFS9/?tag=2022091-20
1852
August Ludwig Busch
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Busch was introduced to astronomy by Friedrich Bessel, whose assistant he became in 1831. When Bessel died in 1846, Busch succeeded him as a director of the astronomical observatory in Königsberg. There he chiefly reduced the observations made by James Bradley in Kew and Wanstead, and from these, he deduced improved values for the constants of aberration and nutation.
Busch was also a pioneer in astronomical photography; in 1851 he succeeded in taking a daguerreotype of the eclipsed sun.
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Works
book
- Systematisches Verzeichniss der in der Bibliothek der Königl. Universitäts-Sternwarte zur Königsberg: Enthaltenen Bücher 1838
- Reduction of the observations made by Bradley at Kew and Wansted, to determine the quantities of aberration and nutation 1838
- Vorschule der darstellen den Geometrie 1846
- Ueber die totale Sonnenfinsterniss 1851
- Systematisches Verzeichniss der in der Bibliothek der Königl 1852
Personality
Physical Characteristics: At the end of his life, Busch suffered from ill health that prevented him from fully developing his astronomical work.
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September 30, 1855 (aged 51) -
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Prussian -
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Career
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1831 - 1846
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1846 - 1854