See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• BAPTISTE

BAPTISTE See also:

• JOSEPH
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

JOSEPH See also:

• JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DELAMBRE (1749-1822)

DELAMBRE (1749-1822)  , See also:

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

French astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• AMIENS

Amiens on the 19th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1749 . His See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college course, begun at Amiens under the See also:

• ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

abbe Jacques See also:

• DELILLE, JACQUES (1738–1813)

Delille, was finished in 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, where he took a scholarship at the college of Plessis . Despite extreme penury, he then continued to study indefatigably See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient and See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, See also:

• HISTORY

history and literature, finally turning his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics and See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy . In 1771 he became See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to the son of M. d'Assy, See also:

• RECEIVER

receiver-See also:

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

general of finances; and while acting in this capacity, attended the lectures of J . J . See also:

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

Lalande, who, struck with his remarkable acquirements, induced M. d'Assy in 1788 to install an See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory for his benefit at his own See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence . Here See also:

• DELAMBRE, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1749-1822)

Delambre observed and computed almost uninterruptedly, and in 1790 obtained for his Tables of See also:

• URANUS
• URANUS (Heaven)

Uranus the See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize offered by the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy of sciences, of which See also:

• BODY

body he was elected a member- two years later . He was admitted to the See also:

• INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

Institute on its organization in 1795, and became, in 1803, perpetual secretary to its mathematical See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

section . He, moreover, belonged from 1795 to the See also:

• BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

bureau of longitudes . From 1792 to 1799 he was occupied with the measurement of the arc of the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian extending from See also:

• DUNKIRK
• DUNKIRK (Fr. Dunkerque)

Dunkirk to See also:

• BARCELONA

Barcelona, and published a detailed See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the operations in See also:

• BASE

Base du systeme metrique (3 vols., 18o6, 1807, 181o), for which he was awarded in 1810 the decennial prize of the Institute . The first See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul nominated him inspector-general of studies; he succeeded Lalande in 1807 as See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of astronomy at the College de See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, and filled the See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of treasurer to the imperial university from 18o8 until its suppression in 1815 . Delambre died at Paris on the 19th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1822 .

His last years were devoted to researches into the history of See also:

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

science, resulting in the successive publication of: Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne (2 vols., 1817); Histoire de l'astronomie an moyen dge (1819); Histoire de l'astronomie moderne (2 vols., 1821); and Histoire de l'astronomie an X VIII' siecle, issued in 1827 under the care of C . L . Mathieu . These books show marvellous erudition; but some of the judgments expressed in them are warped by See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice; they are diffuse in See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style and overloaded with computations . He wrote besides: Tables ecliptiques See also:

• DES

des satellites de See also:

• JUPITER

Jupiter, inserted in the third edition of J . J . Lalande's Astronomie (1792), and republished in an improved See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form by the bureau of longitudes in 1817; Methodes analytiques pour la determination d'un arc du meridien (1799); Tables du soleil (publiees See also:

• PAR (Lat. par, equal)

par le bureau des longitudes) (1806) ; Rapport historique sur See also:

• LES

les progres des sciences See also:

• MAT (O. Eng. meatt, from late Lat. mattes, whence Ital. mallet, Ger. and Dan. matte, Du. mat, &c.)

mat hematiques depuis l' an 1789 (1810); Abrege d'astronomie (1813); Astronomie theorique et pratique (1814); &c . See J . B . J . See also:

• FOURIER, F
• FOURIER, FRANCOIS CHARLES MARIE (1772-1837)
• FOURIER, JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH (1768-1830)

Fourier's " Eloge " in Memoires de l'acad. des sciences, t. iv.; Ch . See also:

• DUPIN, ANDRE MARIE JEAN JACQUES (1783-1865)

Dupin, Revue encyclopedique, t. xvi .

(1822); Biog. universelle, t. lxii . (C . L . Mathieu) ; Max . See also:

• MARIE

Marie, Hist. des sciences, x . 31; R . See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, Hist. of See also:

• PHYSICAL

Physical Astr. pp . 96, 142, 165; R . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomie, p . 779, &e . (A . M .