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	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - LoveToKnow 1911
		JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH DELAMBRE (1749-1822), French astronomer, was born at Amiens on the 19th of September 1 749.
		Here Delambre observed and computed almost uninterruptedly, and in 17 9 0 obtained for his Tables of Uranus the prize offered by the academy of sciences, of which body he was elected a member two years later.
		The first consul nominated him inspector-general of studies; he succeeded Lalande in 1807 as professor of astronomy at the College de France, and filled the office of treasurer to the imperial university from 1808 until its suppression in 1815.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (392 words)

	New Statesman - Fetish for facts
		He struggles to distinguish between the curious and telling (for example, Delambre was denounced during the Terror for lacking an "abhorrence of kings") and the curious yet inconsequential (after Delambre had supervised Descartes's reburial in 1819, Sweden sent France a skull, wrongly claiming it was the philosopher's).
		Delambre and Mechain were savants - Enlightenment thinkers, investigators of a world they believed would be revealed to be perfectly constructed.
		Delambre realised that Mechain's measurements were inevitably flawed because the natural world is flawed.
	www.newstatesman.com /200209230042 (866 words)

	Jean Baptiste Delambre
		Delambre undertook the formation of tables of its motion, and the prize was awarded to him.
		Delambre's Base du system Metrique was published in three volumes (1806-10), which shows that he was still engaged upon it at the time he wrote the letter which forms the basis for this story.
		Delambre, who had been chosen as an associate of almost every scientific body in Europe, was appointed in 1795 a member of the French Board of Longitude, and in 1803 perpetual secretary for the mathematical sciences in the Institute.
	www.surveyhistory.org /jean_baptiste_delambre1.htm (956 words)

	Delambre biography
		Delambre was very impressed and decided to make observations of the orbit of Uranus in order to verify Laplace's theoretical results.
		The principal landmarks in the development were the tables of Lacaille (1758), and the tables of Delambre that were published in the third edition of Lalande's Astronomie (1792), and the revised version of these tables published by the Bureau des Longitudes in 1806.
		Delambre attained further achievements in his career, however, including his appointment to the chair of astronomy at the Collège de France in Paris in 1807.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /Biographies/Delambre.html (2794 words)

	Delambre: Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 1771 Delambre became tutor to the son of M. d'Assy, receiver general of finances.
		In 1807 he became professor of astronomy at the Collège de France in Paris and was treasurer to the Imperial University from 1808 until its suppression in 1815.
		Delambre also wrote histories of ancient, medieval, and modern astronomy.
	www.space.com /reference/brit/delambre (216 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		With P. MEchain 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).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Delambre.html (218 words)

	Delambre (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Delambre is a lunar impact crater that lies to the southwest of Mare Tranquillitatis, in the central highland region.
		To the west are the crater pair of Theon Junior and Theon Senior, the later being more distant and located to the northwest.
		The rim of Delambre has a terraced interior, with a tiny craterlet lying along the northern rim.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delambre_(crater) (122 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (September 19, 1749 in Amiens – August 19, 1822 in Paris) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
		Named director of the Paris Observatory and professor at the Collège de France, Delambre was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas, was the author of Delambre's Analogies and, after the age of 70, also the author of works on the history of astronomy like Histoire de l'astronomie.
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre died in 1822 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (276 words)

	Freethought of the Day
		Delambre made huge contributions to astronomy despite losing most of his vision to smallpox as a toddler.
		In 1789, Delambre won the Grand Prix by the Academy of Sciences for calculating the precise orbit of Uranus.
		Delambre wrote the first of three volumes containing the measurement of the earth in 1806.
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	Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
		Here Delambre observed and computed almost uninterruptedly, and in 1790 obtained for his Tables of Uranus the prize offered by the academy of sciences, of which body he was elected a member two years later.
		The first consul nominated him inspector-general of studies; he succeeded Lalande in 1807 as professor of astronomy at the Collège de France, and filled the office of treasurer to the imperial university from 1808 until its suppression in 1815.
		Delambre's last years were devoted to researches into the history of science, resulting in the successive publication of: Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne (2 vols., 1817); Histoire de l'astronomie au moyen âge (1819); Histoire de l'astronomie moderne (2 vols., 1821); and Histoire de l'astronomie au XVIII siècle, issued in 1827 undes the care of C. Mathieu.
	www.nndb.com /people/404/000097113 (375 words)

	Mechain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Now this romantic story may not be true for Delambre, who knew Méchain very well over a period of ten years, stated in his biography of Méchain, written many years after his death, that there was no evidence to support the story.
		Delambre was given charge of the Dunkerque to Rodez sector and Méchain the Rodez to Barcelona sector much of which had not been previously surveyed.
		Delambre did not want confidence in the metric system destroyed and a public announcement that Méchain had altered his data might well have had this result.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Mechain.html (2412 words)

	Hotel Delambre - Paris - Ile de France - France.com
		There is a little Supermarket on Rue Delambre again very useful for a family and plenty of cafes and restaurants in the area.
		We truly enjoyed our stay at the Delambre and especially the location, as we felt we were among the local Parisian's with all the amenities necessary for a tourist.
		Hotel Delambre was located in a great place it was near the metro which we found very useful.
	www.france.com /hotels/hotel.cfm?hotel_id=972&show_all_comments=yes (5231 words)

	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre — FactMonster.com
		With P. 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
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0815019.html (96 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: The Measure Of All Things
		And to ensure that their creation would not be seen as the handiwork of any single group or nation, they decided to derive its fundamental unit from the measure of the world itself.
		Delambre wrote the Base du système métrique décimal - which we might translate as The Foundation of the Metric System - in order to present all the expedition's findings "without omission or reticence." At over two thousand pages, this magisterial work certainly appears thorough enough.
		Delambre and Méchain had demonstrated that the judicious application of scientific knowledge might, as Archimedes once boasted, move the world.
	www.wnyc.org /books/5755 (3009 words)

	The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World: Current Amazon U.S.A. ...
		Delambre, a Skeptical Stoic, was the more pragmatic and, perhaps, the more modern of the two astronomers, settling as he did for honesty in error where precision was out of reach.
		Mechain and Delambre carefully measure the length of a line of longitude from Dunkirk to Barcelona, a quarter of a line of longitude, and plan to derive the length of a meter.
		The astronomer Delambre, heading north, was mistaken for an aristocrat, detained, and suspected of using a church tower as a royalist beacon.
	php-web-hosting.us /stuff-074321675X.html (4341 words)

	Hôtel delambre paris Hotel Paris
		Nombre de chambres Hôtel Delambre : 60 lits, 30 chambres, 1 chambres pour personnes à mobilité réduite
		Tarifs chambre simple Hôtel Delambre (*) : de 85 EUR à 105 EUR
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	www.webstore.fr /home/hotel-hotel-delambre-paris-2194.htm (147 words)

	Simon & Schuster in CANADA
		For seven years Delambre and Méchain traveled the meridian to extract this single number from the curved surface of our planet.
		Delambre wrote the Base du système métrique décimal -- which we might translate as The Foundation of the Metric System -- in order to present all the expedition's findings "without omission or reticence." At over two thousand pages, this magisterial work certainly appears thorough enough.
		Yet even in failure, Delambre and Méchain succeeded, for by their labor they rewrote not only our knowledge of the shape of the earth, but our knowledge of error as well.
	www.simonsays.com /subs/excerpt.cfm?areaid=287&isbn=074321675X (2926 words)

	DELAMBRE, Jean-Baptiste Joseph., Autographed letter signed. To Mme. Lafrancais Lalande (niece of the noted French ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This letter concerns the various offers for reprinting Delambre's eulogy of Lalande, in which he summarizes his many accomplishments, as an astronomer, teacher, friend, and inspiration to other great astronomers.
		Delambre himself had been approached by a M. Sauro of Du Moniteur, while a M. Millin had been dealing with Mme.
		Delambre discusses the possible formats in which the eulogy could be produced, and questions who would bear the costs of the production.
	www.polybiblio.com /blroot/1815.html (205 words)

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		Delambre, as a consequence, bore a large part of the project’s productive workload and the entire task of recording its findings.
		Thoughtful colleague that Delambre was, eventually knowing of Mechain’s unresolved ‘errors’ in star altitudes and Barcelona’s latitude from the dead Mechain’s records, Delambre reported the work with respect for Mechain, preserving Mechain’s reputation after Mechain’s death.
		As Alder correctly reports, Delambre and Mechain needed a theory of errors that was not then in hand.
	home.att.net /~pfrswr/alder_02.doc (932 words)

	Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With P. Méchain he measured (1791-99) for the French government an arc of the meridian between Barcelona and Dunkirk.
		Delambre is known for his historical works, including Histoire de l'astronomie (6 vol., 1817-27).
		Pictures and Maps for: Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/delambre.asp (335 words)

	References for Delambre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		C L Mathieu, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Biographie universelle (Paris), 304-308.
		C A Wilson, Perturbations and solar tables from Lacaille to Delambre : the rapprochement of observation and theory 1, Arch.
		C A Wilson, Perturbations and solar tables from Lacaille to Delambre : the rapprochement of observation and theory 2, Arch.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Printref/Delambre.html (145 words)

	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (September 19, 1749 in Amiens – August 19, 1822 in Paris) was a French mathematician and astronomer.
		Delambre crater is named for him on the Moon.
		This page was last modified 11:42, 18 September 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (153 words)

	The Fly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Above and beyond the inevitable shock of being told such a thing, DeLambre’s mind revolts because this revelation is glaringly at odds with everything he knows about Helene and her relationship with Andre, which looked to be about as trouble-free as any union between two people can be.
		And yet, the body in the press is clearly that of DeLambre’s brother (it bears a huge and conspicuous scar on its right shin, a souvenir of Andre’s military service), and Helene is adamant that it was she that put Andre under the press.
		In particular, she is fixated on the capture of a largish bluebottle with a strange white head.
	www.1000misspenthours.com /reviews/reviewse-g/fly1958.htm (1578 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Measure of All Things : The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Yet the story of Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain, the two astronomers assigned the task of arriving at a number equalling one-tenth-millionth of the quarter meridian, is actually quite gripping in its own way.
		This historical backdrop means that, at least in the early stages of the mission, Mechain and Delambre get themselves into some pretty sticky situations with bloodthirsty rural citizens skeptical of our peaceful protagonists' efforts to find the ideal spots for setting up their dubious-looking high-precision rulers.
		THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS is a delightfully written account of the quest by Delambre and Mechain, two astronomers who, in the midst of the French Revolution, attempt to use the latest technology (at that time) to triangulate various points along a meridian to find the perfect measurement, the meter.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/074352666X (1798 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		Delambre was redecorated a couple of years ago, so it's rooms should be in decent shape.
		I know those two locations and prefer the Delambre's location myself, and think it's more convenient for various reasons for transportation, neighborhood shops, cafes, etc. It's also a lot closer to that workshop.
		The Delambre itself is recommended a lot in various guidebooks and places, so I am sure it's a quality hotel, although I don't think it's exactly charming but functional (ie, decor of rooms).
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A late bloomer, Delambre has become a remarkable astronomer almost all by himself, as a disciple of renowned (a magnificent and eccentric character) Jerome Lalande.
		Delambre or any other practical astronomer would simply have dismissed the incongrous data as a mysterious distortion, but Mechain, a man obsessed with an accuracy impossible for his age, decides not to disclose the mistake, fearing it might destroy his reputation.
		It clearly underscores the philosophical and psychological differences between Delambre and Mechain as they cope very differently with the disappointments and struggles of their undertaking.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000094P57?v=glance (3186 words)

	Borders - Feature - The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
		In June 1792—in the dying days of the French monarchy, as the world began to revolve around a new promise of Revolutionary equality—two astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary quest.
		What neither advocates nor opponents of the metric system could have known is that a secret error lies at the heart of the metric system—an error perpetuated in every subsequent definition of the meter.
		Delambre wrote the Base du système métrique décimal—which we might translate as The Foundation of the Metric System—in order to present all the expedition's findings "without omission or reticence." At over two thousand pages, this magisterial work certainly appears thorough enough.
	www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=measureofallthings (2957 words)

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