2480 - Singapore

Laureen from Singapore sends a book cover card of Giorgio Abetti's book, The Sun. Abetti was an Italian solar astronomer. 

Abetti was born in Padua, Italy in 1882. His father, Antonio Abetti, was also a noted astronomer. In 1921, he succeeded his father as the director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri until 1957. He was also a professor at the University of Florence from 1925 to 1957. 

Abetti led expeditions to observe solar eclipses to Siberia in 1936 and Sudan in 1952. The Sun was his seventh and last book on astronomy.