José María Algué

José María Algué
Portrait of José María Algué
Born	(1856-12-29)December 29, 1856 Manresa, Spain
Died	May 27, 1930(1930-05-27) (aged 73) Roquetes, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Scientific career
Fields	Meteoroly

José María Algué, SJ (29 December 1856 – 27 May 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microseismograph. Father Algué was an honorary member of the Royal Society of London and the Pontificia Accademia Romana.

Works

• (1897). Baguíos y Ciclones Filipinos
• (1897). El Barociclonómetro
• (1898). Las Nubes en el Archipiélago Filipino
• (1898). El Baguio de Samar y Leyte, Octubre 12-13, 1897
• (1900). El Archipiélago Filipino
• (1904). Atlas de Filipinas

Works in English translation

• (1900). Atlas of the Philippine Islands, Government Printing Office.
• (1902). Ground Temperature Observations at Manila, 1896-1902, Bureau of Public PrScience in the Philippinesinting.
• (1904). The Climate of the Philippines, Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census.
• (1904). The Cyclones of the Far East, Bureau of Public Printing.
• (1908). "The Meteorological Conditions in the Philippine Islands, 1908," Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Vol. XXXV, No. 151.
• (1909). Mirador Observatory, Baguio, Benguet, Bureau of Printing.

References

• Udías Vallina, Agustín (2003). Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The History of the Jesuit Observatories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 293.
• Walsh, James J. Science in the Philippines, New York.
• Warren, James Francis (2009). "Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit Meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924." In Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State, Part VIII, University of Wisconsin Press.

See also

• List of Roman Catholic scientist-clerics