Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French: [lalɑ̃d]; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Lalande was born at...
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Baily, Francis; Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de (1847). "Catalogue of those stars in the Histoire céleste française of Jérôme Delalande, for which...
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missionary Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807), French astronomer and writer Julien Pierre Anne Lalande (1787–1844), French admiral Louis Lalande (active from...
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Bibcode:1919LAstr..33...92R. "LES LAURÉATS DU PRIX LALANDE". La Revue scientifique. TOME 40. Paris: 460–463. 1887. "The Lalande Prize". Popular Astronomy. 25: 215. 1917...
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eastern edge of Mare Insularum. It was named after French astronomer Jérôme Lalande. The crater is surrounded by a high-albedo area of ejecta that extends...
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astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated the date of the return of Halley's Comet. Her other astronomical...
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French astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1795. It depicted a wall-mounted quadrant with which he and his nephew Michel Lefrançois de Lalande had charted the...
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of them died in the endeavour. The various results were collated by Jérôme Lalande to give a figure for the solar parallax of 8.6″. Karl Rudolph Powalky...
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Aerostatique (the French equivalent) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1798. It lay between the constellations Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus...
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Felis (Latin for cat) was a constellation created by French astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1799. He chose the name partly because, as a cat lover, he felt sorry...
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the French Academy of Sciences. The prize was endowed by astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1801, a few years before his death in 1807, to enable the Academy...
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Lefrançois de Lalande (1776-1839) in 1788. She was also the niece of the astronomer and writer Jérôme Lalande, who was said to have valued Lalande for her mathematical...
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Olympique Lyonnais and France Alain Giletti, (born 1939), ice skater Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807), astronomer, freemason and writer. Isabelle Lonvis-Rome...
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Georgii by Lalande) 1781 Maximilian Hell Quadrans Muralis /ˈkweɪdrænz mjʊəˈreɪlɪs/ Quadrantis Muralis Mural Quadrant 1795 Jérôme Lalande Quadratum Quadrati...
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de Lalande, chevalier de Sainte-Marthe (1615–1679), French soldier Jean de Lalande (died 1646), French Jesuit missionary Joseph de Lalande or Jérôme Lalande...
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developed. The name "vernier" was popularised by the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande (1732–1807) through his Traité d'astronomie (2 vols) (1764). The use...
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Sylvain Bailly. Eloges by Merard de Saint Just, Delisle de Salles, Jérôme Lalande and Lacretelle A memoir by François Arago, read on 26 February 1844...
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part of his Histoire. After his death, his Histoire was completed by Jérôme Lalande, and published at Paris in 1799–1802 (4 vols). Ivor Grattan-Guinness...
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preparation "to be consumed fresh or to preserve". The writer and voyager Jérôme Lalande in his book "Voyage en Italie", Paris, 1771, vol. 8, page 269, noted...
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name Occupation Location Portrait SEGUIN Marc Seguin engineer NW01 LALANDE Jérôme Lalande astronomer NW02 TRESCA Henri Tresca engineer and mechanic NW03 PONCELET...
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astronomers. At the first such congress, in 1798, the French mathematician Jérôme Lalande had called for a coordinated search, in which each participating observatory...
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sent his complete observations to Oriani, Bode, and French astronomer Jérôme Lalande. The information was published in the September 1801 issue of the Monatliche...
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the age, such as Georges Cuvier, René Just Haüy, Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jérôme Lalande, Gaspard Monge, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and many more. He also published...
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densities and masses of the Sun, Moon and planets, sent by Hutton to Jérôme Lalande for inclusion in his planetary tables. As discussed above, establishing...
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Parisians Based on a misunderstanding of a talk given by astronomer Jérôme Lalande Parisians were convinced that a comet would destroy the world on this...
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Britain and Hanover, and alternatives were soon proposed. Astronomer Jérôme Lalande proposed that it be named Herschel in honour of its discoverer. Swedish...
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astronomer and mathematician. He was a disciple of astronomer and writer Jérôme Lalande at the Collège Royal. Véron is famous for having made a historical observation...
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mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange, the astronomer Jérôme Lalande, the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the astronomer and naval geographer...
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Muralis, a former constellation created in 1795 by the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande that included portions of Boötes and Draco. In early January 1825, Antonio...
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1713. According to Tartini's account given to the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande, he dreamed that he had made a pact with the devil, to whom he had handed...
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