from Tables Astronomiques, Vol,: Tables du Soleil Tables de la Lune
Gomtres les Astronomes les plus distingus et les Artistes les plus habiles pour perfectionner les Thories les Calculs et les Observations.
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In, Jean Baptiste Delambre was born in France, Delambre made huge contributions to astronomy despite losing most of his
vision to smallpox as a toddler, He was educated at a Jesuit College in Amiens until the Jesuits were expelled from France in, Although originally contemplating a life as a priest, Delambre became a rationalist, He tutored, then studied in Paris under the eminent atheist and astronomer sitelink Jérôme Lalande, becoming his assistant.
In, Delambre recorded the transit of Mercury across the Sun, and corrected the existing tables, In, Delambre won the Grand Prix by the Academy of Sciences for calculating the precise orbit of Uranus, He was given his own observatory in, In, he published tables on the Sun, In, Jean Baptiste Delambre was born in France, Delambre made huge contributions to astronomy despite losing most of his vision to smallpox as a toddler, He was educated at a Jesuit College in Amiens until the Jesuits were expelled from France in, Although originally contemplating a life as a priest, Delambre became a rationalist, He tutored, then studied in Paris under the eminent atheist and astronomer sitelink Jérôme Lalande, becoming his assistant.
In, Delambre recorded the transit of Mercury across the Sun, and corrected the existing tables, In, Delambre won the Grand Prix by the Academy of Sciences for calculating the precise orbit of Uranus, He was given his own observatory in, In, he published tables on the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and the satellites of Jupiter, Delambre wrote the first of three volumes containing the measurement of the earth in, In, sitelink Napoleon, his admirer, asked the Academy to award a "best scientific publication of the decade," which went to Delambre.
Delambre's multi volume History of Astronomy became a science classic, Mathematician sitelink Joseph Fourier, in his obituary of Delambre, said the scientific world was indebted to Delambre for the geodetic operation.
The United States was indebted to Delambre for his role in freeing a Mr, M. Smithson, a political prisoner of war, In, Delambre wrote the French Ministry of War requesting his release, Smithson later bequeathed his extensive estate to the United States to found the establishment that became the Smithsonian Institution.
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