astronomy

Marie-Charles Damoiseau

Marie-Charles Damoiseau is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Marie-Charles Damoiseau rather than just read about it. In short: Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort (6 April 1768 in Besançon – 6 August 1846) was a French astronomer. Damoiseau was originally an artillery officer but he left France in 1792 during the French Revolution.

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Reference excerpt

Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort (6 April 1768 in Besançon – 6 August 1846) was a French astronomer. Damoiseau was originally an artillery officer but he left France in 1792 during the French Revolution. He worked as assistant director at the Lisbon Observatory before he returned to France in 1807. In 1825, he was elected a 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 Moon) between 1824 and 1828.

Scientific work

Theory of the Moon In 1818, Laplace proposed that the Académie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity. In 1820, the prize was awarded to Carlini and Plana and to Damoiseau by a committee that included Laplace.

Satellites of Jupiter See also

David P. Todd, A continuation of de Damoiseau's tables of the satellites of Jupiter, to the year 1900, 1876 John Couch Adams, Continuation of Tables I. and III. of Damoiseau's Tables of Jupiter's satellites, 1877

Honors He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831. Elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1832.* The crater Damoiseau on the Moon is named after him.

Manuscripts The Paris observatory holds a large set of manuscripts from Damoiseau. See Manuscrits Damoiseau on http://alidade.obspm.fr Archived 2015-10-01 at the Wayback Machine

Publications Éphémérides nauticas, ou Diario astronomico para 1799 [-1805] calculado no Observatorio real da marinha (8 volumes, 1798–1802) Memoria relativa aos eclipses do sol visiveis em Lisboa, desde 1800 até 1900 inclusivamente (1801) Tables de la lune, formées par la seule théorie de l'attraction et suivant la division de la circonférence en 400 degrés (1824) Tables de la lune, formées par la seule théorie de l'attraction et suivant la division de la circonférence en 360 degrés (1828) Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter, d'après la théorie de leurs attractions mutuelles et les constantes déduites des observations (1836)

References

G. Tagliaferri and P. Tucci, Carlini and Plana on the theory of the moon and their dispute with Laplace, Ann. of Sci. 56 (3) (1999), 221-269.

External links French Academy of Sciences on-line biography

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Marie-Charles Damoiseau

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Marie-Charles Damoiseau ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Marie-Charles Damoiseau

In research: Marie-Charles Damoiseau appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Marie-Charles Damoiseau in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Marie-Charles Damoiseau is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1768 births, 1846 deaths, 19th-century French astronomers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Marie-Charles Damoiseau outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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