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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)

	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-and.ac.uk /Biographies/Delambre.html (2794 words)

	Jean Baptiste Delambre
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822), an eminent mathematician and astronomer, was born at Aiens, September 19, 1749.
		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)

	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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (262 words)

	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)

	Ken Alder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		Delambre and Méchain had demonstrated that the judicious application of scientific knowledge might, as Archimedes once boasted, move the world.
	www.kenalder.com /excerpts.htm (2894 words)

	Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph, 1749-1822, French astronomer and mathematician.
		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).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-delambre.html (253 words)

	The Measure Of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey And Hidden Error That Transformed The World \| The Onion - America's ...
		He emphasizes the complicated personalities of the two 18th-century Frenchmen who set out to define the proper length of the meter, and their intention to supply the foundation of a new standardized system of measurement, thereby making life more equitable.
		As it happened, Méchain's inability to get the results he wanted drove him to an early grave, while Delambre's belated discovery of his partner's deceit turned the younger scientist more philosophical, and launched an era in which accounting for error became an important part of scientific study.
		He also writes warmly about their era, when number-crunchers were hailed as "savants"and had the ear of kings and commoners alike, and when science involved strapping on hiking boots and heading into the wild to refine the common understanding.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/20777 (430 words)

	AllRefer.com - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (Astronomy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre[zhAN bAtEst´ zhOzef´ dulAN´bru] Pronunciation Key, 1749–1822, French astronomer and mathematician.
		With P. MEchain 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).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Delambre.html (218 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)

	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Wikipedia
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (September 19, 1749, Amiens – Augustus 19, 1822, Parys) was 'n franse wiskundige en sterrekundige.
		Die doel was om 'n universeel aanvaarde basis te skep vir die definisie van die meter, wat gedefinieer sou word as 1/10 000 000 van die afstand tussen die Noorpool en die ewenaar.
		Delambre Krater op die maan is vernoem na hom.
	af.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (159 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: 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.wnyc.org /books/5755 (3093 words)

	CNN.com - Why the metric system is wrong - Dec. 3, 2002
		The new French leaders were determined to create a single standard based on the Earth, and assigned two astronomers, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain, to travel the French countryside along the Paris meridian to determine its exact length from the English Channel to the Mediterranean.
		Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre, one of the two surveyors assigned to determine the meter.
		The scientists who created the meter wanted it to be close to the commonly used yard (or aune, in France), so Delambre and Mechain's mission was, in many ways, a fait accompli.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/alder.measure (1104 words)

	Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (19 de septiembre de 1749 en Amiens; † 19 de agosto en 1822 en París) fue un astrónomo francés.
		El nombre de Delambre figura en la cartografía lunar dando nombre a uno de sus cráteres.
		No obstante, poco a poco, y gracias a una enseñanza privada fue Delambre educándose y mostrando en su juventud unas aptitudes muy dirigidas al estudio de la astronomía.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (263 words)

	The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
		Determined to carve out their own piece of history, Delambre and Mechain faced a myriad of near-fatal challenges, with only their wits and their letters to each other for support.
		The guilty knowledge of his misdeed drove him to the brink of madness, and ultimately to his death.
		The measurements brought back by Delambre and Méchain not only made science into a global enterprise and made possible our global economy, but also revolutionized our understanding of error.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn074321675X (753 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Science
		The tale begins with French astronomers Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre and Pierre-Francois-Andre Mechain, who painstakingly set out to measure the meridian between Dunkerque and Barcelona.
		Alder, a professor of history at Northwestern University, immersed himself in just about every detail of Delambre and Mechain's mission, which Louis XVI commissioned just prior to the onset of the French Revolution.
		Inspired by what he says are clues in Delambre's seminal book on the metric system -- published after Mechain's death -- Alder unearthed evidence from long-sealed archives indicating that because of an error made by Mechain and covered up by Delambre, the unit that has become the worldwide standard of measure is actually wrong.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A45566-2002Oct18?language=printer (1593 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Wikipédia
		Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (né à Amiens le 19 septembre 1749 - décédé à Paris le 19 août 1822) était un astronome et mathématicien français.
		Ce haut fonctionnaire devient le protecteur de Delambre : il lui facilite ses études, lui permit de suivre les cours de l'astronome Lalande et installa dans les combles de son hôtel un observatoire ; Delambre commence alors ses premières observations.
		Le cratère Delambre sur la Lune porte son nom pour lui rendre hommage.
	fr.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (399 words)

	[No title]
		As is his custom, Dr. Barsky started off today's class with a tidbit from "This Day in Math History." One of the people born on this date was Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, who made substantial contributions toward devising the measurement system now known as the metric system.
		Sedorook proceeded to go through a solution method to this problem that was possibly used by the proposer of the problem, Liu Hui, as well as another solution due to Yang Hui.
		The Mathematicians of the Day were James Waddell Alexander, William Henry Fox Talbot and Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.
	public.csusm.edu /public/DJBarskyWebs/330CollageSep19.html (1434 words)

	Science and Society Picture Library - Search
		Baron Jean Baptiste Fourier, French mathematician, c 1810.
		Joannes Baptiste van Helmont and Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont, 17th century.
		Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French astronomer, c 1810s.
	www.scienceandsociety.co.uk /results.asp?txtkeys1=Baptiste (71 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre - Wikipedia
		Zusammen mit Pierre Méchain hat Delambre zwischen 1792 und 1798 die Distanz zwischen Dünkirchen und Barcelona vermessen.
		Delambre hat den nördlichen Teil der Messung übernommen (siehe Gradmessung).
		Er ist namentlich auf dem Eiffelturm verewigt, siehe: Die 72 Namen auf dem Eiffelturm.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Joseph_Delambre (88 words)

	Measure of All Things
		To tell the story, Alder has not only worked in archives throughout Europe and America, but also bicycled the entire route traveled by Delambre and Mechain.
		Both a novelist and a prizewinning historian of science and the French Revolution, Alder summons all his skills to tell how the French Revolution mixed violent passion with the coldestsanity to produce our modern world.
		The measurements brought back by Delambre and Mechain not only made science into a global enterprise and made possible our global economy, but also revolutionized our understanding of error.
	www.globecorner.com /t/t36/18391.php (519 words)

	TecaLibri: Indice dei titoli di: storia della scienza: 1800-1899
		1817, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Storia dell’astronomia antica
		1821, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Storia dell’astronomia moderna
		1827, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Storia dell’astronomia del 18° secolo
	tecalibri.altervista.org /Classi/S/Sto_Sci_U_1800.htm (380 words)

	Lecture 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749-1822) creates tables for planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and satellites of Jupiter
		Bouvard corrects Delambres' tables for Uranus and publishes new tables
		French astronomer, Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier (1811-1877) is encouraged to work on problem of perturbations in Uranus's orbit
	eee.uci.edu /clients/bjbecker/ExploringtheCosmos/lecture13.html (664 words)

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