José María Algué

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José María Algué, SI (Manresa, 1856 - Roquetes, Spain 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph. He published: Baguíos y ciclones Filipinos, El barociclonómetro, Las nubes en el archipiélago Filipino, El clima de Filipinas and Los ciclones en el Extremo Oriente.

[edit] Bibliography

Udías Vallina, Agustín, Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The history of the Jesuit observatories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, p. 293.

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Name	Algue, Jose Maria
Alternative names
Short description	Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist
Date of birth	1856
Place of birth	Manresa
Date of death	1930
Place of death	Roquetes