Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (French pronunciation: [ʒozɛf nikɔla dəlil]; 4 April 1688 – 11 September 1768) was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle...

The Delisle scale is a temperature scale invented in 1732 by the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768). The Delisle scale is notable as...

Delisle is a small lunar impact crater in the western part of the Mare Imbrium. It was named after French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. It lies to...

Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy, and became the zealous and favoured pupil of both Delisle and Pierre Charles...

graduated at the College of Louis le Grand, and studied astronomy under Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. His astronomical tables (1724) gave him reputation, and the French...

In 1723 he also confirmed earlier (1715) discovery of his pupil Joseph-Nicolas Delisle of what is usually referred to as Poisson's spot, an observation...

Guillaume's brothers Joseph-Nicolas and Louis had already left France to serve Peter the Great in Russia. The youngest Delisle, Simon Claude, lacked...

the Arago spot and the Poisson spot) had already been observed by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and Giacomo F. Maraldi a century earlier. In pure mathematics, Poisson's...

(1871–1940), Canadian political figure Jonathan Delisle (1977–2006) Canadian hockey player Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), French astronomer for whom the...

is sometimes called the Arago spot) had already been observed by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle Corpuscular theory of light Photoelectric effect Wave–particle duality...

temperature – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur degree Delisle (°D), temperature – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle degree Newton (°N), temperature – Isaac Newton degree...

Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and theologian (died 1772) April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (died 1768) August 14 – Johann Leonhard Rost...

Guillaume Delisle drew several maps by hand between 1695 and about 1700 that portray such eastern intrusions of the Pacific Ocean. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Guillaume's...

library such as those of Johannes Hevelius, Jérôme Lalande and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. The title of Director of the Observatory was officially given for...

Kulibin Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche Johann Daniel Schumacher Joseph-Nicolas Delisle Northern (Arctic) Federal University Stepan Krasheninnikov Stepan...

observation could determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle set up a 62-station network for observing the transit. Those taking...

hometown on 25 July 1748. In 1751, Messier entered the employ of Joseph Nicolas Delisle, the astronomer of the French Navy, who instructed him to keep careful...

sun to ever be perceived." On 1759 April 7, the French astronomer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle announced to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris that he and...

creditors and jailer Map: Fictitious Northwest Passage that mapmaker Joseph-Nicolas Delisle based on fictitious 1640 voyage of Spanish admiral Guéganic (2008)...

Lithuania 1758 – John Dollond reinvents the achromatic lens 1761 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 62 observing station network for observing the transit of Venus...

astronomer Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768), the Academy of Sciences entrusted the job of astronomical and geographic metrology to Delisle's younger brother...

of the Hôtel de Cluny was used as an observatory by astronomers Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Jérôme Lalande, and Charles Messier who in 1771, published his...

Antoine Deparcieux, French mathematician (born 1703) September 11 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (born 1688) October 1 – Robert Simson, Scottish...

06:13 10:06 Coordinated scientific observations were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle worldwide. 1756 Nov 7 01:28 04:10 06:54 1769 Nov 9–10 19:23 21:46...

the Alaskan coast. French astronomer in Russian service Joseph-Nicolas Delisle invents the Delisle scale for measuring temperature (recalibrated in 1738)...

1676 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (d. 1760) 1688 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer and cartographer (d. 1768) 1718 – Benjamin Kennicott...

Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Virtual exhibition about Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and oriental astronomy on the digital library of Paris Observatory...

scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. December 3 – Ecuadorian scientist Pedro Vicente Maldonado departs...

preserved in the library of the Paris Observatory, probably written by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768) at some point before 1738. See Bobis and Lequeux (2008)...

14 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, British designer (d. 1763) April 4 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) April 15 – Johann Friedrich Fasch,...