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For fear of losing his ability to read, he devoured any book available and trained his memory.  He thus immersed himself in Greek and Latin literature, acquired the ability to recall entire pages verbatim weeks after reading them, became fluent in Italian, English and German and even wrote an unpublished R\u00e8gle ou m\u00e9thode facile pour apprendre la langue anglaise (Easy rule or method for learning English).Delambre’s quickly achieved success in his career in astronomy, such that in 1788, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.  In 1790, to establish a universally accepted foundation for the definition of measures, the National Constituent Assembly asked the French Academy of Sciences to introduce a new unit of measurement. The academics decided on the metre, defined as 1 \/ 10,000,000 of the distance from the North Pole to the equator, and prepared to organise an expedition to measure the length of the meridian arc between Dunkirk and Barcelona. This portion of the meridian, which also passes through Paris, was to serve as the basis for the length of the quarter meridian, connecting the North Pole with the Equator. In April 1791, the academy’s Metric Commission confided this mission to Jean-Dominique de Cassini, Adrien-Marie Legendre and Pierre M\u00e9chain. Cassini was chosen to head the northern expedition but, as a royalist, he refused to serve under the revolutionary government after the arrest of King Louis XVI on his Flight to Varennes. On 15 February 1792, Delambre was elected unanimously a member of the French Academy of Sciences and in May 1792, after Cassini’s final refusal, was placed in charge of the northern expedition, measuring the meridian from Dunkirk to Rodez in the south of France. Pierre M\u00e9chain headed the southern expedition, measuring from Barcelona to Rodez. The measurements were finished in 1798. The gathered data were presented to an international conference of savants in Paris the following year.In 1801, First Consul Napol\u00e9on Bonaparte took the presidency of the French Academy of Sciences and appointed Delambre its Permanent Secretary for the Mathematical Sciences, a post he held until his death. In 1803, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.[3]After M\u00e9chain’s death in 1804, he was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. He was also professor of Astronomy at the Coll\u00e8ge de France. The same year he married Elisabeth-Agla\u00e9e Leblanc de Pommard, a widow with whom he had lived already for a long time. Her son, Achille-C\u00e9sar-Charles de Pommard (1781\u20131807) assisted Delambre on several occasions in his astronomical and geodetical surveys, notably the measuring of the baselines for the meridian survey, and the latitude definition for Paris in December 1799 which was presented to the Conference of Savants.Delambre was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas, was the author of Delambre’s Analogies and, after the age of 70, also the author of works on the history of astronomy like the Histoire de l’astronomie.  He was a knight (chevalier) of the Order of Saint Michael and of the L\u00e9gion d’honneur.  His name is also one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel tower. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1822.[4]Delambre died in 1822 and was interred in P\u00e8re Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.  The crater Delambre on the Moon is named after him.Delambre was an atheist.[5]  Histoire de l’astronomie ancienne, 1817M\u00e9thodes analytiques pour la d\u00e9termination d’un arc du m\u00e9ridien (Crapelet, Paris, 1799)Notice historique sur M. M\u00e9chain, lue le 5 messidor XIII (Baudouin, Paris, January 1806; this is the eulogy on the late Pierre M\u00e9chain, read at the Academy by Secretary Delambre on 24 June 1805)Base du syst\u00e8me m\u00e9trique d\u00e9cimal, ou Mesure de l’arc du m\u00e9ridien \u2013 compris entre les parall\u00e8les de Dunkerque et Barcelone, ex\u00e9cut\u00e9e en 1792 et ann\u00e9es suivantes, par MM. M\u00e9chain et Delambre. (editor; Baudouin, Imprimeur de l’Institut National; Paris; 3. vol.; January 1806, 1807, 1810; this includes both his own and M\u00e9chain’s data gathered during the meridian survey 1792\u20131799 and calculations derived thereof)Rapport historique sur le progr\u00e8s des sciences math\u00e9matiques depuis 1799 (Imprimerie Imp\u00e9riale, Paris, 1810)Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter: d’apr\u00e8s la th\u00e9orie de M. le Marquis de Laplace, et la totalit\u00e9 des observations faites depuis 1662 jusqu’\u00e0 l’an 1802 (Paris\u00a0: Courcier, 1817.)  Title page of an 1817 copy of “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter“A history of astronomy, comprising four works and six volumes in all:Histoire de l’astronomie ancienne, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1817.  2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxii, 556 pp., 1 folded plate; vol. 2, viii, 639 pp., [1], 16 folded plates. OCLC\u00a0490232972.Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (Sources of Science, #23), with a new preface by Otto Neugebauer.  OCLC\u00a0648488.Text on line: vol. 1, [1], [2], [3]; vol. 2, [4], [5].Histoire de l’astronomie du moyen age, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.  lxxxiv, 640 pp., 17 folded plates.  OCLC\u00a0490233042.Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (Sources of Science, #24.)  OCLC\u00a0647834.Also reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2006. OCLC\u00a0494627038.Text on line: [6].Histoire de l’astronomie moderne, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1821.  2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxxii, 715 pp., [1], 9 folded plates; vol. 2, [4], 804 pp., 8 folded plates.  OCLC\u00a0490233154.Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 (Sources of Science, #25), with a new introduction and tables of contents by I. Bernard Cohen.  OCLC\u00a0647838.Also reprinted by Paris: Editions Jacques Gabay, 2006.  OCLC\u00a0493779358.This takes the history to the 17th century.Text on line: both volumes, with usable plates, [7]; vol. 1, [8], [9], [10]; vol. 2, [11].Histoire de l’astronomie au dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle, edited by Claude-Louis Mathieu, Paris: Bachelier (successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1827.  lii, 796 p., 3 folded plates.  OCLC\u00a0490233264Reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2004.  OCLC\u00a0470502171.This includes the history of astronomy in the 18th century, especially critiques of his colleagues at the Academy, which he withheld to be published posthumously.Text on line: [12]; with usable plates, [13].Grandeur et figure de la terre, ouvrage augment\u00e9 de notes, de cartes (1912)(edited by Guillaume Bigourdan, Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1912; about the figure of the Earth)Some works are digitalized on Paris Observatory digital library.1817 copy of “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter”1817 introduction to “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter”1817 introduction to “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter”1817 introduction to “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter”Excerpt from an 1817 copy of “Tables \u00e9cliptiques des satellites de Jupiter”See also[edit]References[edit]^ Ten, Antonio E. (2014). “Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph”. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York, NY: Springer New York. pp.\u00a0542\u2013543. doi:10.1007\/978-1-4419-9917-7_346. ISBN\u00a0978-1-4419-9916-0.^ “Grandeur et Figure de la Terre”. Nature. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 90 (2239): 101. 1912. Bibcode:1912Natur..90..101.. doi:10.1038\/090101a0. ISSN\u00a00028-0836. S2CID\u00a029711903.^ “APS Member History”. search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 1 April 2021.^ “Book of Members, 1780\u20132010: Chapter D” (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 28 July 2014.^ George William Foote, ed. (1887). Progress: a monthly magazine of advanced thought, Volume 7. Progressive Publishing Co. p. 127. DELAMBRE (Jean Baptiste Joseph), French astronomer, born at Amiens, 19 September 1749, studied under Lalande and became, like his master, an Atheist.Further reading[edit]Ken Alder: The Measure of All Things \u2013 The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (The Free Press; New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore; 2002; ISBN\u00a00-7432-1675-X)External links[edit]O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., “Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St AndrewsA brief biography of Delambre, partly from the 1880 Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, including an account of Delambre’s intervention to request liberation (from French imprisonment) of James Smithson, who went on to endow the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution, national museum of the United States of AmericaPortrait of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library’s Digital Collections Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback MachineJean Baptiste Joseph Delambre papers Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre papers, MSS 458 at L. 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