Alexandre Guy Pingré

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Alexandre Guy Pingré
(engraving by Conrad Westermayr , 1799)

Alexandre Guy Pingré (born September 4, 1711 in Paris , †  May 1, 1796 ibid) was a French astronomer .

At the age of sixteen Pingré entered the order of the Augustinian Canons and was professor of theology in Senlis from 1735 to 1745 , later an astronomer in Rouen and worked in Paris from 1751.

PINGRÉ traveled in 1760 and 1769 by India and America to Venus passages to observe. From 1757 he also dealt with the theory and calculation of comets and their orbits . At that time, he calculated as many comet orbits as all other astronomers in Europe put together.

In 1764 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . From 1753 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

The lunar crater Pingré and the asteroid (12719) Pingre are named after him.

Fonts

  • Cométographie ou traité historique et théorique des comètes. 2 volumes. Imprimerie Royale, Paris 1783–1784, (Pingré's main work; digitized , digitized ).
  • Histoire l'Astronomie du 17 e siècle. (The work remained unfinished).

literature

  • Colin A. Ronan: Pingré, Alexandre-Gui. In: Charles Coulston Gillispie (Ed.): Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Volume 10: SG Navashin - W. Piso. Scribner, New York NY 1974, ISBN 0-684-10121-1 , pp. 614-616.
  • Gaspard de Prony : Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Alexandre-Gui Pingré. In: Mémoires de l'Institut National des Sciences et Arts. Sciences mathématiques et physiques. Vol. 1, An 4 (1797/1798), ISSN  1155-0767 , pp. XXVI-XLVI .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 189.
  2. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 3, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Pingré, Alexandre Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1711
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1796
Place of death Paris