engineer, julio garavito armero.

julio garavito armero.

(Bogota, on January 5, 1865 - + Bogota, on March 11, 1920). Very precocious expert of the sciences and the mathematics obtained his titles of Mathematician and of Civil Engineer in the National University of Colombia. In 1892 he was the director of the Astronomic National Observatory. His works of investigation were published in The Annals of Engineering, magazine directed by him from 1890 and for seven years.

In his youth San Bartolomé studied in the College but in 1885 he interrupted his studies because of the numerous civil wars that flogged the country. During the War of Thousand Days, Garavito was a part of a secret society and scientific call The Circle of Nine Points, where to enter it had to solve an original problem of

As Observatory astronomer, made numerous discoveries useful, as the latitudinal location of Bogota, studies of comets that passed through the Earth between 1901 and 1910 (the latter, Halley), the solar eclipse of 1916 (seen in much of Colombia), among others. But perhaps his most important contribution was the study of Celestial Mechanics, which eventually became the study of the lunar fluctuations and their influence on behavior temporary, climate, water and polar ice, as well as the acceleration orbiting Earth, Case it would be confirmed later.