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Jérôme Lalande
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French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)
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It is catalogued under topics including 1732 births, 1807 deaths and 18th-century French astronomers.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1732-07-11 ) 11 July 1732, Bourg-en-Bresse , France
- Died
- 4 April 1807 (1807-04-04) (aged 74), Paris , France
- Fields
- Astronomy
- Institutions
- Paris Observatory
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle , Pierre Charles Le Monnier
- Doctoral students
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerome
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Bourg-en-Bresse
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- atheism
- Doctoral advisor
- Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
- Student of
- Pierre Charles Le Monnier
- Doctoral student
- Joseph Lepaute Dagelet
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- Jérôme de La Lande.jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Jérôme Lalande
- date of birth
- 1732-07-11
- date of death
- 1807-04-04
- Commons Creator page
- Jérôme Lalande
- student
- Pierre Méchain
- name in native language
- Joseph-Jérôme Le Français de la Lande
- P8168
- Bernd Polster
- birth name
- Joseph-Jérôme Le Français
- has works in the collection
- Bibliothèque nationale de France
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P13311
- Zaccanopoli
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Works in European collections
14 objects attributed to Jérôme Lalande, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande ( French: [lalɑ̃d]; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. He is known for having estimated a precise value of the astronomical unit (the distance from the Earth to the Sun) using measurements of the transit of Venus in 1769.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jérôme Lalande” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.