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Last Name Arents

Given Name Pierre Marie

alt. Names P. M. A. ;

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Year born 1873 fl.

Year died 1886 fl.

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Country of Activity France

Worked for dermatologist Henri C. C. Leloir: Traité pratique theorique lèpre Atlas (1886) ; astronomer Pierre Jules Janssen ;

Patronage offical photographer of the French Venus transit expedition 1873/74 to Japan ; Meudon Astronomical & Astrophysical Observatory (employee until 1880)

Collaborators lithographer Karmanski ; artist Pluchart ; artist Karmanski ; artist G. Dubar ; P. M. A's successor at Meudon was ->Louis Pasteur ;

Techniques medical, dermatological, and astronomical photography and heliogravure

Sample(s) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leprosy.jpg

Archival sources Stephane Le Gars: L’émergence de l’astronomie physique en France, 2007;http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/40/50/48/PDF/These_Stephane_Le_Gar

Published sources Ehring: Hautkrankheiten 1989: 228 ; Q. Bajac et al.: Dans le Champ des Étoiles. Les Photographies et le Ciel 1850-2000 (Paris 2000: 24-29) ; F. Launey: The Astronomer Jules Janssen, 2011: 81ff. ;

other Mainly active in Paris, but also in Japan. In 1880, P. M. A. quitted Meudon Obs. and opened a heliogravure printing workshop at 43 Rue Tournefort, Paris.

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