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THE LATE PROF. CACCIATORE.—Prof. G. Cacciatore, whose death we have briefly recorded (p. 208), had been associated with the Royal Observatory of Palermo, during nearly the whole of his life. He was born at Palermo on March 17, 1814, his father being the well-known Prof. Nicolo Cacciatore, assistant at one time to Piazzi, and later his successor in the directorship of the Observatory Gaetano Cacciatore, on the death of his father in 1841, was appointed Director of the Observatory and Professor of Astronomy in the University of Palermo, and he held these positions until 1849, when, having taken a very prominent part in the revolution of the previous year, he was compelled to leave Palermo by the return to power of the Bourbons. In 1860, however, Garibaldi recalled him to his former position. He spared no pains to increase the power and usefulness of the Observatory, and greatly increased its equipment. It was under his direction that the scope of the institution was enlarged, so that in 1880 it was reorganized in three sections—one of Geometrical Astronomy; one of Physical Astronomy, in the modern sense of the word; and the third of Meteorology.
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 40, 255 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/040255a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/040255a0