DELAMBRE. BAI.TisTE .14isEril 1749-1s122. I. A French ;1st horn at .1Iniens. Ile studied first under Delisle, and afterwards under Lalonde, with both of whoM he formed a (dose friendship. in 1781, the planet Uranus was discovered by 11'il 1iam Herschel. Delatuhre worked out taldeS of its motion, that obtained for him the annual prize of the Aeadentt; and attracted to him the attention of the learned world in general. Soon after, hr t he of solar tables, and at a still later period, tables of the motions of Jupiter and Saturn. .\long with he seas appointed by the French Go‘ermnent, in 1792, to measure the arc of the meridian between Dunkirk and Barcelona. Which ma.; •onipleted in 1799. .therwords he was elected a member of the Academy. In 1S112 he :1141(6111(A inspector-general of education, and in 1S03 perpetual secretary of the In:111w mat section of the Institute. The result of
his measurements appeared in his great work, 1111 tens/, 11 lig Ile cirri ni it (3 vols.. 11401i 1111. 111 1507 Ii,' Obt ;I hied the chair of astronmity at 11 e CoMge de •roneel rendered vacant li• the death of Lalonde. his master and friend. In 1s14 he was appointed a inenther of the Council of Public Instruction. 14elambre received a mul titude of honors during his lifetime. Ile was a r 1114i-t of the learned bodies in Europe and an officer of the 1.41414,11 if Ilonor. His writings are very rolls. The principal an.: d'uslrontni. (3 Ili,luir. 11r Pas t nu In or nistoire !'lstrtnunrie mod, en, (2 veil ; and His /tore de l'ost rototin fi 11 sit ele (Is23-27 1, published miller the care of 'Mat thieu. Besides these. Del imbre is the author of several •xeellent 114 moil., R.