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Amédée Guillemin
Amédée Guillemin (born July 5, 1826 in Pierre-de-Bresse, died January 2, 1893 in Pierre-de-Bresse, France) was a French science writer and a journalist.
Guillemin started his studies at Beaune college before taking his final degree in Paris. From 1850 to 1860 he taught mathematics in a private school while writing articles for the Liberal press criticizing the Second French Empire. In 1860, he moved to Chambéry where he became a junior deputy editor of the weekly political magazine
comment of Pogson's observations that "[he] was a highly experienced observer [...] so there seems little room for error. On the other hand, it is inconceivable that the comet was Biela's; it must have been another, quite unconnected, merely happening to lie in the same region of the sky – an almost incredible coincidence." The writer Amédée Guillemin described this coincidence as "a very striking, I might almost say, romantic episode in astronomical history".
As Pogson was the only observer