Euler's Correspondence with Joseph Jerome Lefrancois de Lalande
Lalande (1732-1807) was a French astronomer who served as
Professor of Astronomy at the College de France from
1762-1795, a period encompassing the whole of Euler's second
Saint Petersberg period. Early in his career, Lalande
worked with Lacaille to take observations on the paralax of
the moon, the two of them working from Berlin and South
Africa, respectively.
Lalande devoted a large part of his working life to
preparing a catalog of 47,000 stars, which he published in
1801. He was also a great popularizer of astronomy. It was
Lalande who wrote all of the astronomy articles in the great
Encyclopedie.
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Publication Information:
List of all known correspondence (15 letters total):
| OO1389 |
Lalande to Euler |
31 December, 1752 |
| OO1390 |
Lalande to Euler |
02 March, 1753 |
| OO1391 |
Lalande to Euler |
22 November, 1753 |
| OO1392 |
Lalande to Euler |
10 August, 1754 |
| OO1393 |
Lalande to Euler |
27 June, 1755 |
| OO1394 |
Lalande to Euler |
07 May, 1760 |
| OO1395 |
Lalande to Euler |
26 June, 1760 |
| OO1396 |
Lalande to Euler |
01 January, 1761 |
| OO1397 |
Lalande to Euler |
23 March, 1761 |
| OO1398 |
Lalande to Euler |
27 May, 1762 |
| OO1399 |
Lalande to Euler |
18 July, 1763 |
| OO1400 |
Lalande to Euler |
16 January, 1764 |
| OO1401 |
Lalande to Euler |
12 September, 1764 |
| OO1402 |
Lalande to Euler |
26 May, 1767 |
| OO1403 |
Lalande to Euler |
17 February, 1768 |
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