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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Augustin-Jean Fresnel's theory, though it had already been observed by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle and Giacomo F. Maraldi a century earlier. Prim's algorithm, developed...

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...

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

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

church before turning to astronomy when inspired by a lecture by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. By 1753 he was a professional astronomer and he wrote influentially...

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

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

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...

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...

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

and explorer Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768), astronomer, inventor of the Delisle scale Claude Delisle sur Imago Mundi Claude Delisle (1731). Abrégé...

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

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)...

Mathematics Physics Institutions University of Utrecht Doctoral advisor Leonhard Euler Joseph-Nicolas Delisle Doctoral students Jean Henri van Swinden...