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Pierre Méchain
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French mathematician and astronomer (1744-1804)
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Pierre François André Méchain (1744–1804) was a French astronomer, cartographer, engineer, and mathematician. Born in Laon, he worked in Paris as a director for the Bureau des Longitudes. His professional fields included mathematics, geodesy, and astronomy. Méchain held memberships in the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the Bureau des Longitudes, and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. He was also recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
His notable works include *Exposé des opérations faites en France en 1787, pour la jonction des observatoires de Paris et de Greenwich* and *Base du système métrique décimal*. He died of yellow fever in Castellón de la Plana.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1744
- Died
- 1804
- Works
- 5
Top works
- Exposé des opérations faites en France en 1787, pour la jonction des observatoires de Paris et de Greenwich
- Base du système m`etrique décimal
- Base du système métrique décimal
- Base du système métrique décimal
- Grundlagen des dezimalen metrischen systems
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
Discography
- Symphonie n°32012
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 2
- Cited by
- 3
Research areas
Most cited works
- Exposé des operations faites en France en 1787, pour la jonction des observatoires de Paris et de Greenwich. ... Description et usage d'un nouver instrument, propre à donner la mesure des angles, à la précision d'une seconde1970 · 2 cit
- Grundlagen des dezimalen metrischen Systems, oder, Messung des Meridianbogens zwischen den Breiten von Dünkirchen und Barcelona ausgeführt im Jahre 1792 und in den folgenden1911 · 1 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,877x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 28,241x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,475x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 19,108x
- Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,664x
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Key facts
- Born
- Pierre François André Méchain , ( 1744-08-16 ) 16 August 1744, Laon , France
- Died
- 20 September 1804 (1804-09-20) (aged 60), Castellón de la Plana , Spain
- Known for
- Deep-sky objects , comets , metre
- Fields
- astronomy
- Institutions
- Paris Observatory
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre François André Méchain ( French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa ɑ̃dʁe meʃɛ̃]; 16 August 1744 – 20 September 1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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