Category:Named Theorems/Delambre

This category contains results named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre.

French mathematician and astronomer.

Author of well-known books on the history of astronomy from ancient times to the 18th century.

Placed in charge of the mission to measure the meridian from Dunkirk to Rodez in the south of France, taking over the responsibility from Jean-Dominique de Cassini, who refused the mission for political reasons.

One of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas, formulating the trigonometrical identities now known as Delambre's Analogies.