Marie-Charles Damoiseau facts for kids
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 of 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 1824–1828.
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 of which Laplace was a member.
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
