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hom-70	Donnelly, Kevin	Redeeming Belgian Science: Periodic Phenomena and Global Physics in Brussels, 1825-1870	2017	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10820	330	38	Microsoft Word - 3) Donnelly .docx History of Meteorology 8 (2017)   54 Redeeming Belgian Science: Periodic Phenomena and Global Physics in Brussels, 1825-1870 Kevin Donnelly kevin.donnelly@alvernia.edu Alvernia University Introduction: a nation at the margins of science In 1864, at the age of 68, the renowned Belgian astronomer, statistician, and all-around savant Adolphe Quetelet published a strange compendium on two topics which might seem to have little relation to one another: a history of Belgian science and a survey of what Quetelet called “periodic phenomena,” a wide-ranging survey of natural and meteorological data that he had been collecting for over three decades. For the best account of Quetelet’s efforts, see A. Collard, “Le Centenaire de la Création de l'Observatoire Royale de Bruxelles,” Ciel et terre 42 (1926): 209-23 and M. A. Demoulin, “Adolphe Quetelet, Fondateur de l'Observatoire Royale de Belgique,” Bulletin Astronomique de l'Observatoire Royale de Belgique 2 (1935), 1-3.	cache/hom-70.pdf	txt/hom-70.txt