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Authorised form of nameDelambre; Jean Baptiste Joseph (1749 - 1822)
Dates1749 - 1822
NationalityFrench
Place of birthAmiens, France
Date of birth19 September 1749
Place of deathParis, France
Date of death19 August 1822
Research fieldAstronomy
Geodesy
History of astronomy
ActivityEducation:
Studied langauges under the Jesuits, then under the poet Jacques Delille; later studied under the astronomer Lalande
Career:
Worked with PFA Mechain (FRS 1789) measuring the arc of the meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona (1792-1799); Professor of Astronomy, College de France (1807)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1791
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DSB
CodeNA7147
Archives associated with this Fellow
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EC/1791/14Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/5/51Letter from Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Institut de France, to the President of the Royal Society31 October 1811
CB/1/3/212Letter from Delalandre, Paris to Charles Blagden20 October 1806
MS/957/9Letter from [Jean Baptiste Joseph] Delambre, Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, to Captain [Henry] Kater28 May 1821
L&P/9/22Paper, 'Memoire sur l'epoque et le mouvement des monds de Jupiter [On the epocha and the motion of the nodes of Jupiter]' by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre1786
CB/1/3/213Letter from Delambre, Paris to Charles Blagden, London26 June 1808
CB/1/3/214Draft of a letter from Charles Blagden to Delambre1 August 1808
HS/6/483Letter, from Jean-Baptiste Delambre to Sir John Herschel, dated at Paris6 May 1822
HS/6/482Letter, from Jean-Baptiste Delambre to Sir John Herschel, dated at Paris1 June 1820
MS/957/13Letter from [Jean Baptiste Joseph] Delambre, Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, to Captain [Henry] Kater14 February 1820
MS/957/8Letter from [Jean Baptiste Joseph] Delambre, Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, to [Henry] Kater6 December 1819
MS/957/7Letter from [Jean Baptiste Joseph] Delambre, Institut de France, Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, to [Henry] Kater6 December 1819
HS/6/484Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Jean-Baptiste Delambre, dated at 9 Downing St.28 May 1822
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