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Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924
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Scientific Superman: Father José Algué, Jesuit meteorology, and the Philippines under American Rule, 1897-1924

J.F. Warren
Colonial Crucible: Empier in the Making of the Modern American State, pp.508-519
The University of Wisconsin Press
2009
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Abstract

In November 1898, in Manila Bay onboard the bridge of the flagship of the American fleet, the olympia, a carefully arranged meeting between Admiral Dewey and the Jesuit meterologist Father Jose Algue was to pave the way for the reorganization of the Manila Weather Observatory under American rule...

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