Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre (19 September 1749 – 19 August 1822) was a French mathematician, astronomer, historian of astronomy, and geodesist...

monumental Description de l'Égypte. In 1822, Fourier succeeded Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre as Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences. In...

kilometers in depth. It was named for Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, an 18th-century French astronomer. The rim of Delambre has a terraced interior, with a...

The arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain was a geodetic survey carried out by Jean-Baptiste Delambre and Pierre Méchain in 1792–1798 to measure an arc...

called the "father of astronomy", a title conferred on him by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1817. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (Greek: Νίκαια), in Bithynia...

were called "the most brilliant and useful of the century" by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, historian of astronomy, mathematical astronomer and director...

distance accurately, the French Academy of Sciences commissioned Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre Méchain to lead an expedition to attempt to accurately...

used for amateur cycling. In June 1792 the French astronomers Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre and Pierre François André Méchain set out to measure the meridian...

Cesarsky Joseph Bernard de Chabert Jean Chacornac Merieme Chadid Daniel Chalonge Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche Auguste Charlois Sébastien Charnoz Jean Chazy...

1728–1777 (France) Roger Joseph Boscovich 1711–1787 (Venetian Republic) Pierre Méchain 1744–1804 (France) Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749–1822 (France) Ino...