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Jérôme Lalande

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French: [lalɑ̃d]; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer.

Jérôme Lalande

(1732-07-11)11 July 1732

4 April 1807(1807-04-04) (aged 74)

Paris

French

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In 1765, Lalande was elected a member of the .

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

In 1781, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the .[12]

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

His name is one of the .

72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower

The crater on the Moon is named after him.

Lalande

A high school in is named after Lalande. This high school was awarded the Médaille de la Résistance in recognition of the wartime conduct of its teachers and pupils, a unique case among all schools in France.

Bourg-en-Bresse

Traité d'astronomie (1st Ed., 2 vols., 1764; 2nd Ed., 4 vols., 1771–1781; 3rd Ed., 3 vols., 1792)

(1801), giving the places of 47,390 stars

Histoire céleste française

Bibliographie astronomique (1803), with a history of astronomy from 1780 to 1802

Astronomie des dames (1785)

Abrégé de navigation (1793)

(1769), a valuable record of his travel in 1765–1766.

Voyage d'un françois en Italie

Lalande 21185

Les Neuf Sœurs

Felis (constellation)

Quadrans Muralis

Atlas Coelestis

Officina Typographica

VY Canis Majoris

Chapin, Seymour (1990). . In Howse, Derek (ed.). Background To Discovery: Pacific Exploration from Dampier To Cook. University of California Press.

"The Men from Across La Manche: French Voyages, 1660–1790"

Curtis-Wendlandt, Lisa; Gibbard, Paul; Green, Karen (2016). Political Ideas of Enlightenment Women: Virtue and Citizenship. . p. 85. ISBN 978-1-317-07876-0.

Routledge

Hockey, Thomas (2009). . Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved 22 August 2012.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

Price, Fred William (2000). The planet observer's handbook. . p. 352.

Cambridge University Press

. US Navy. Retrieved 11 September 2009.

"USNO – Our Command History"

Attribution

Mémoires de l'Institut, VIII (1807) (JBJ Delambre)

: Histoire de l'astronomie au XVIIIe siècle, p. 547

J-B Delambre

Magazin encyclopédique, II, 288 (1810) (Mme de Salm);

Histoire de l'astronomie moderne, t. III, (ed. 1785)

JS Bailly

J Mädler: Geschichte der Himmelskunde II, 141

Geschichte der Astronomie

R Wolf

JJ Lalande, Bibliographie astronomique p. 428

Biographisch-lit. Handwörterbuch

JC Poggendorff

Maximilien Marie: Histoire des sciences mathématiques et physiques IX, 35.

at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

Jérôme Lalande

Tome premier de Traité d'astronomie, de 1764

Abrégé de navigation (pdf)

Portrait of Jerome Lalande from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections

at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University

Joseph Jérôme Le Français de Lalande letters to Mme. Dupiery, MSS 530

(1792-1806) at the digital library, Paris Observatory

Letters from baron de Franz Xaver von Zach to Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande