• The Bureau des Longitudes (French: [byʁo de lɔ̃ʒityd]) is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of 25 June 1795 and charged with the improvement...
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    and his first act on his return home was to deposit them in the Bureau des Longitudes at Paris. As a reward for his adventurous conduct in the cause of...
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    sent to Grenoble. In 1808 he became astronomer to the Bureau des Longitudes; and when the Faculté des sciences de Paris was instituted in 1809 he was appointed...
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    under the title Ephémérides astronomiques: Annuaire du Bureau des longitudes. Connaissance des temps is the oldest such publication in the world, published...
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    aberration of light. He was elected a member of the Bureau des Longitudes in 1872 and of the Académie des Sciences in 1873. Loewy became director of the Paris...
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  • for the use of astronomers]. Connaissance des Temps (in French). Vol. 1847. Paris, France: Bureau des Longitudes. 1847. p. [unnumbered front matter]. Metzger...
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    falsely stating that this had been officially approved by the French Bureau des Longitudes. In October, he sought to name the planet Leverrier, after himself...
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    tables with latitudes and longitudes, and in some cases improving the accuracy. The methods used to determine most of the longitudes are not given, but a few...
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    Polytechnique upon its opening in 1794, was a founding member of the Bureau des Longitudes, and became Senator in 1799. Lagrange was one of the creators of...
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  • member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Bureau des Longitudes. He is best known for publishing lunar tables (positions of the...
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