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Prof. Moll IN various papers and in the annual report of the Royal Astronomical Society are to be found notices of Prof. Moll, of Utrecht, who died at Amsterdam on January 17, 1838. Moll was born on January 18, 1785, and as a youth spent some time as a clerk in a business house in Amsterdam, his native place, devoting his leisure to the study of mathematics and astronomy and other subjects. When about twenty -one years of age, his father allowed him to relinquish business and he became a student first at Amsterdam under van Swinden, and then at Utrecht and Paris, and in December 1812 was made professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Utrecht. While holding this post he was placed in charge of the “Waterstaat” on which fell the responsibility of preventing inundations, and also had care of the chronometers for the Navy.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 141, 131 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141131a0
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