Mathematician:Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande

Mathematician
French astronomer and writer.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 11 July 1732 in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France
 * Died: 4 April 1807 in Paris, France

Publications

 * 1763: Journal d'un voyage en Angleterre
 * 1764: Traité d'astronomie (2 vols.)
 * 1769: Voyage d'un françois en Italie
 * 1771 -- 1781: Traité d'astronomie (enlarged edition of the 1764 work) (4 vols)
 * 1785: Astronomie des dames
 * 1792: Traité d'astronomie (3rd ed. of 1764 work) (3 vols.)
 * 1793: Abrégé de navigation
 * 1801: Histoire Céleste Française, giving the places of 47,390 stars
 * 1803: Bibliographie astronomique: a history of astronomy from 1780 to 1802