Faye, HERVE AUGUSTE ETIENNE, French astronomer, born in 1814 at St-Benoît-du-Sault, became in 1873 professor at the École Polytechnique, and in 1878 director of the Paris Observatory. In 1843 he discovered Faye's comet; and in 1872 propounded the sun-spot theory of the weather, restated in Tempêtes ou Tornadoes (1897).
Faye, HERVE AUGUSTE ETIENNE
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 568–569
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