Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire et au progrès de l’astronomie

References

Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire et au progrès de l’astronomie

work by Delisle

Written by

The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Learn about this topic in these articles:

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
His Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire et au progrès de l’astronomie (1738; “Memoirs Recounting the History and Progress of Astronomy”) gave the first method for determining the heliocentric (Sun-centred) coordinates of sunspots. He returned to Paris in 1747, was appointed geographic astronomer to the naval department,…
Read More
His Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire et au progrès de l’astronomie (1738; “Memoirs Recounting the History and Progress of Astronomy”) gave the first method for determining the heliocentric (Sun-centred) coordinates of sunspots. He returned to Paris in 1747, was appointed geographic astronomer to the naval department,…
Read More