See also:

• JEAN

JEAN SYLVAIN See also:

• JEAN SYLVAIN BAILLY (1736-1793)

BAILLY (1736-1793)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French astronomer and orator, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris on the 15th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1736 . Originally intended for the profession of a painter, he preferred See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing tragedies until attracted to See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science by the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

Nicolas de See also:

• LACAILLE, NICOLAS LOUIS DE (1713-1762)

Lacaille . He calculated an See also:

• ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit for the See also:

• COMET (Gr. Koµieiis, long-haired)

comet-of 1759 (See also:

• HALLEY, EDMUND (1656–1742)

Halley's), reduced Lacaille's observations of 515 zodiacal stars, and was, in 1763, elected a member of the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences . His Essai sur la theorie See also:

• DES

des satellites de See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter (1766), an expansion of a memoir presented to the Academy in 1763, showed much See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power; and it was followed up in 1771 by a noteworthy dissertation Sur See also:

• LES

les inegalites de la lumiere des satellites de Jupiter . Meantime, he had gained a high See also:

• LITERARY

literary reputation by his Eloges of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles V., Lacaille, See also:

• MOLIERE (1622-1673)

Moliere, See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709)

Corneille and See also:

• LEIBNITZ (LEIBNIZ), GOTTFRIED WILHELM

Leibnitz, which were issued in a collected See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form in 1770 and 1790; he was admitted to the French Academy (See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 26, 1784), and to the Academie des See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

Inscriptions in 1785, when See also:

• FONTENELLE, BERNARD LE BOVIER DE (1657-1757)

Fontenelle's simultaneous membership of all three See also:

• ACADEMIES

Academies was renewed in him . Thenceforth, he devoted himself to the See also:

• HISTORY

history of science, See also:

• PUBLISHING

publishing successively :—Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne (1775); Histoire de l'astronomie See also:

• MODERN

modern (3 vols . 1779-1782); Lettres sur l'origine des sciences (1777) ; Lettres sur l'Atlantide de See also:

• PLATON, LEVSHIN (1737-1812)

Platon (1779); and Traite de l'astronomie indienne et orientale (1787) . Their erudition was, however, marred by speculative extravagances . The See also:

• CATACLYSM (Gr. Karcudsuvµos, a deluge)

cataclysm of the French Revolution interrupted his studies . Elected See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy from Paris to the states-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, he was chosen See also:

• PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president of the Third See also:

• ESTATE (through O. Fr. estat, mod. flat, from Lat. status, state, condition, position, stare, to stand)

Estate (May 5, 1789), led the famous proceedings in the See also:

• TENNIS (sometimes called royal tennis, and, in America, court tennis)

Tennis See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court (See also:

• JUNE

June 20), and acted as See also:

• MAYOR (Lat. major, greater)
• MAYOR, JOHN EYTON BICKERSTETH (1825– )

mayor of Paris (See also:

• JULY

July 15, 1789, to See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 16, 1791) . The dispersal by the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Guard, under his orders, of the riotous See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly in the Champ de See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars (July 17, 1791) rendered him See also:

• OBNOXIOUS (Lat. obnoxiosus, from ob, over, against, and noxa, harm)

obnoxious to the infuriated populace, and he retired to See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes, where he composed his Memoires d'un temoin (published in 3 vols. by MM . Berville and Barriere, 1821-1822), an incomplete narrative of the extraordinary events of his public See also:

• LIFE

life, See also:

• LATE

Late in 1793, See also:

• BAILLY, JEAN SYLVAIN (1736-1793)

Bailly quitted Nantes to join his friend See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• SIMON, ABRAHAM (1622-1692)
• SIMON, JULES FRANCOIS (1814–1896)
• SIMON, RICHARD (1638–1712)
• SIMON, SIR JOHN (1816–1904)
• SIMON, THOMAS (c. 1623-1665)

Simon See also:

• LAPLACE, PIERRE SIMON, MARQUIS DE (1749—1827)

Laplace at See also:

• MELUN

Melun; but was there recognized, arrested and brought (November lo) before the Revolutionary Tribunal at Paris .

On the 12th of . November he was guillotined amid the insults of a howling See also:

• MOB

mob . He met his See also:

• DEATH

death with patient dignity, having, indeed, disastrously shared the enthusiasms of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, but taken no See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share in its crimes . Notices of his life are contained in the Eloges by Merard de See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint Just, See also:

• DELISLE, JOSEPH NICOLAS (1688-1768)
• DELISLE, L OPOLD VICTOR (1826– )

Delisle de Salles, See also:

• LALANDE, JOSEPH JEROME LEFRANCAIS DE (1732-1807)

Lalande and See also:

• LACRETELLE, PIERRE LOUIS DE (1751-1824)

Lacretelle; in a memoir by See also:

• ARAGO, DOMINIQUE FRANCOIS JEAN (1786-1853)

Arago, read, the 26th of February 1844 before the Academie des Sciences, and published in Notices biographiques, t. ii . (1852) . See also See also:

• DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1749-1822)

Delambre, Histoire de l'astronomie au r8me siecle, p . 735, and Lalande, Bibliographie astronomique, p . 730 .