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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive