Emile Stuyvaert, to San Antonio to observe a locally visible transit of Venus across the face of the sun. At the time, this was a method of measuring time and gravity. Works His published works include: Des turbines, de leur construction, du calcul de leur puissance et de leur application à l'industrie (On Turbines, Their Construction, Calculation of Their Power, and Their Application in Industry / Paris, L.M. Augustin, 1839) his first published work, issued when he was 19 years old; Atlas de toutes les étoiles visibles à l'oeil nu, formé d'après l'observation directe, dans les deux hémisphères (Atlas of All Stars Visible To the Naked Eye, Developed From Direct Observation in Two Hemispheres / Mons, Belgium, Hector Manceaux, 1878) Vade-mecum de l'astronome (The Astronomer's Handbook / Brussels, F. Hayez, 1882); Bibliographie générale de L'astronomie depuis L'origine de L'imprimerie Jusqu'en 1880 (General bibliography of Astronomy From Its First Printed Works Until 1880 / Brussels, F. Hayez, 1882–1887); Règles de climatologie (Rules of Climatology /Brussels, Jamar, no date); and Les facultés mentales des animaux (The mental faculties of animals / Paris & Brussels, Mons, Hector Manceaux 1872). Travel memoirs La terreur blanche au Texas et mon évasion (The White Terror in Texas and My Escape), Brussels: Ve Parent et Fils, 1862, in French My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune (published in French and English, 1872; reprinted 1984 in English) See also Alphonse Toussenel Antoine Laurent Apollinaire Fée Karl Kessler References https://web.archive.org/web/20110526033615/http://joyousjam.tripod.com/jeanhouzeauinjamaica/id1.html External links 1820 births 1888 deaths Belgian emigrants to the United States 19th-century Belgian astronomers People from Mons People from Uvalde, Texas