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Pierre Méchain
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French mathematician and astronomer (1744-1804)
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Pierre Méchain was a French astronomer, cartographer, engineer, and mathematician. Born in Laon in 1744, he worked in Paris and was a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the Bureau des Longitudes, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. He served as a director at the Bureau des Longitudes and studied under Jérôme Lalande. Méchain collaborated with Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre.
He received the award of Fellow of the Royal Society. His work focused on mathematics, geodesy, and astronomy. Méchain died of yellow fever in Castellón de la Plana in 1804. His death is classified as natural causes. He is described in the Nordisk familjebok and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Key facts
- Born
- Pierre François André Méchain , ( 1744-08-16 ) 16 August 1744, Laon , France
- Died
- 20 September 1804 (1804-09-20) (aged 60), Castellón de la Plana , Spain
- Known for
- Deep-sky objects , comets , metre
- Fields
- astronomy
- Institutions
- Paris Observatory
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierre
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Laon
- Place of death
- Castellón de la Plana
- Occupation
- physicist
- Position held
- director
- Educated at
- École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
- Languages spoken
- French
- Student of
- Jérôme Lalande
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- Pierre mechain.jpg
- Work location
- Paris
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- date of birth
- 1744-08-16
- date of death
- 1804-09-20
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- Pierre Méchain
- cause of death
- yellow fever
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- name in native language
- Pierre Méchain
- ethnic group
- French
- partner in business or sport
- Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
- Commons Creator page
- Pierre Méchain
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Bratislava III
- P12749
- Monteleone di Fermo
- birth name
- Pierre François André Méchain
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre François André Méchain ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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