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![Jérôme Lalande Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French: [laläd]; 11 July 1732-4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Biography [edit] Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie- Anne-Gabrielle Monchinet.[¹] His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to favoured pupil of both Delisle and Pierre Charles Le Moiler. Ha about to return to Bourg to practise as an advocate when Berlin, to make observations on the lunar parallax in cond Hope, 121 and became the zealous and eted legal stules, he was n to send him to at the Cape of Good Quarter of a circle by Jonathan Sisson used by Jérôme de Lalande to measure the distance between the earth and the moon in 1751. perm The successful exec was twenty-one, admis election as an adjunc Science He now de planetary heory, publ tained for m, before he ademy of Berli, as well as his to the French Alademy of to the improvement of the 9 corrected edition of Edmond Halley's table with a ey's Com whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Crairaut and cole-Reine Lepaute to calculate (3) In 1762 Delisigned the chair of astronomy in the Collège de France in Lalande's favour. The duties were discharged by Lalande for forty-six years. His house became an astronomical seminary, and amongst his pupils were Delambre, Giuseppe Piazzi, Pierre Méchain, and his own nephew Michel Lalande. By his publications in connection with the transit of Venus of 1769 he won great fame. However, his difficult personality lost him some popularity.[2] Sev Born Died Jérôme de La Lande by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1769 Nationality Children XA 42 languages Read Edit View history Jérôme Lalande Doctoral 11 July 1732 Bourg-en-Bresse 4 April 1807 (aged 74) Paris French 1 Scientific career Astronomy Fields Institutions Paris observatory Doctoral advisor Joseph-Nicolas Delisle Pierre Charles Le Monnier Jean Baptiste Joseph](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/536/223/7d1.jpg "Jerome Lalande")
