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Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre

From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008 | Copyright information

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre , 1749-1822, French astronomer and mathematician. He was a member of the bureau of longitudes from 1795 and professor at the Collège de France from 1807. With P. F. A. Méchain he measured (1791-99) for the French government an arc of the meridian between Barcelona and Dunkirk. He is noted also for astronomical computations, especially a table of the motions of Uranus, and for discovering four formulas in spherical trigonometry (Delambre's analogies). Delambre is known for his historical works, including Histoire de l'astronomie (6 vol., 1817-27).

Bibliography: See K. Alder, The Measure of All Things (2002).

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