José María Algué

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José María Algué, SI (Manresa, 1856 - Roquetes, Spain 1930), was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila. He invented the barocyclonometer, the nephoscope and a kind of microsismograph. He published: Baguíos y ciclones filipinos, El barociclonómetro, Las nubes en el archipiélago filipino, El clima de Filipinas and Los ciclones en el Extremo Oriente.

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• Udías Vallina, Agustín, Searching the Heavens and the Earth. The history of the Jesuit observatories, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, p. 293.