Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix

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Léonard Defrance : Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix, ca.1762.

Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (born November 23, 1718 in Toulouse , Haute-Garonne department , † January 18, 1802 there ) was a French astronomer .

Live and act

Darquier de Pellepoix worked in his hometown a. a. at the Observatoire de Toulouse founded in 1733 . The observations he made between 1748 and 1773 he published in his book Observations Astronomiques faites à Toulouse ( Avignon 1777).

While searching for the 1779 comet , Darquier de Pellepoix observed the M57 ring nebula in February 1779 , just a few days after Charles Messier's discovery on January 31, 1779. He compared the appearance of M57 with that of a planet.

Between 1791 and 1798 he compiled a catalog of the positions of stars , which was then used by Jérôme Lalande for his star catalog published in 1801.

From 1757 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Far-right and anti-Semitic politician Louis Darquier falsely claimed to be a descendant of Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix.

Fonts (selection)

  • Letters on practical astronomy (“Lettres sur l'astronomie pratique”, 1786). Gutsch, Breslau 1791.

literature

  • Jérôme Lamy: Antoine Darquier et la cosmologie de Johann Heinrich Lambert . Emprunts and distances . In: Historia Scientiarum / 2. Series , Vol. 19 (2009), pp. 43-54, ISSN  0285-4821
  • Jérôme Lamy: L'observatoire de Toulouse au XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Archeology d'un espace savant . Presses de Université, Rennes 2007, ISBN 978-2-7535-0423-3 .
  • Debora J. Warner: Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix . In: Diess .: The Sky Explored. Celestial cartography 1500-1800 . Liss Books, New York 1979, p. 61, ISBN 0-8451-1700-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Directory of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 4, 2019 (French, here first name incorrect).
personal data
SURNAME Darquier de Pellepoix, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1718
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse , Haute-Garonne department
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1802
Place of death Toulouse , Haute-Garonne department