Casimir Marie Gaudibert
Casimir Marie Gaudibert (4 March 1823 – 9 June 1901) was a French amateur astronomer and selenographer.
Gaudibert produced a map of the Moon in 1887. Under the direction of Camille Flammarion, Emile Bertaux subsequently produced a globe of the moon based on Gaudibert's lunar map.
The crater Gaudibert on the Moon is named after him.
Religion
[edit]Gaudibert was born into a Roman Catholic family in central France. He was converted to Protestantism through a conversation with an itinerant Spanish evangelist. He moved to Belgium where he was a preacher involved with L'Église missionnaire but was evicted from his pulpit because some of his teaching was considered as unacceptable. From then on he was a teacher in the Plymouth Brethren assemblies in Belgium.[1]
External links
[edit]- Portrait of Casimir Marie Gaudibert from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections Archived 2015-05-26 at the Wayback Machine
- Science Museum: Lunar globes
References
[edit]- ^ Information from his grandson whom I knew in Switzerland in the 1970s. T C F Stunt
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