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    Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist...
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    monumental Description de l'Égypte. In 1822, Fourier succeeded Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre as Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. In...
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    kilometers in depth. It was named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, an 18th-century French astronomer. The rim of Delambre has a terraced interior, with a...
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  • The arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain was a geodetic survey carried out by Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain in 1792–1798 to measure an arc...
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    called the "father of astronomy", a title conferred on him by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (Greek: Νίκαια), in Bithynia...
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    were called "the most brilliant and useful of the century" by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director...
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    distance accurately, the French Academy of Sciences commissioned Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain to lead an expedition to attempt to accurately...
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    used for amateur cycling. In June 1792 the French astronomers Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre François André Méchain set out to measure the meridian...
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  • Cesarsky Joseph Bernard de Chabert Jean Chacornac Merieme Chadid Daniel Chalonge Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche Auguste Charlois Sébastien Charnoz Jean Chazy...
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    1728–1777 (France) Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711–1787 (Venetian Republic) Pierre Méchain 1744–1804 (France) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749–1822 (France) Ino...
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  • astronomer; Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, astronomer; Dominique, comte de Cassini, astronomer; Jean-Charles de Borda, Navy officer; Jean-Nicolas Buache...
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    Puissant declared to the French Academy of Sciences in 1836 that Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain had made errors in the meridian arc measurement...
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  • Gasparis (Italy, 1819–1892) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (France, 1749–1822) Charles-Eugène Delaunay (France, 1816–1872) Eugène Joseph Delporte (Belgium, 1882–1955)...
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  • chemist Jean Dausset (1916–2009), biologist, Nobel prize winner 1980 André-Louis Debierne (1874–1949), chemist Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822)...
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    In "Methods to find the Leap Years of the French Calendar," Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre used three different representations for the same decimal time:...
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    His house became an astronomical seminary, and amongst his pupils were Delambre, Giuseppe Piazzi, Pierre Méchain, and his own nephew Michel Lalande. By...
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    French Academy of Sciences commissioned an expedition led by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1798, which measured...
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    century of increasingly precise observations, the astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre reported the time for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth...
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    Sciences, which had recently been founded by the Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert. In 1666, King Louis XIV authorized the building of the Observatory...
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    Verlet integration algorithm, was used as early as 1791 by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre. Numerical calculations with these algorithms can be considered...
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    century of increasingly precise observations, the astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749–1822) reported the time for light to travel from the Sun...
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    Also missing are Antoine Chézy, who was less famous;[citation needed] Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, who was early in his career at the time; and mathematician...
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    arithmetic rule for determining leap years was proposed by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and presented to the Committee of Public Education by Gilbert...
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  • century, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre had remeasured and extended the French arc from Dunkirk to the Mediterranean Sea (the meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain)...
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    in a creamy beer sauce. In June 1792 the French astronomers Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre François André Méchain set out to measure the meridian...
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  • af Chapman, Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (b. 1721) 1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749) 1883 – Jeremiah...
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  • Jean-Paul Bignon, French priest and man of letters (d. 1743) 1721 – William Robertson, Scottish historian (d. 1793) 1749 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre...
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     296–. ISBN 978-0-521-05801-8. Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1819). Histoire de l'astronomie du moyen age; par m. Delambre, chevalier de Saint-Michel et...
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    French Academy of Sciences had commissioned an expedition led by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain, lasting from 1792 to 1799, which attempted...
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  • pianist and composer Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic artist Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre – French mathematician Michel Delpech – French singer Pierre...
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