References for Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre

1. I B Cohen, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830901126.html
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9029788/Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Delambre

Books:

3. K Alder, The measure of all things (London, 2002).

Articles:

4. P C Enros, Person index for Delambre's 'Rapport historique' of 1810, Historia Math. 3 (1976), 321-324.
5. I Grattan-Guinness, Some remarks on the recognition of Arabic mathematics in the writings of Montucla and Delambre, Ganita Bharati 11 (1-4) (1989), 12-17.
6. I Grattan-Guinness, A Paris curiosity, 1814 : Delambre's obituary of Lagrange, and its 'supplement', in Science and philosophy (Milan, 1985), 664-677.
7. I Grattan-Guinness, A Paris curiosity, 1814 : Delambre's obituary of Lagrange, and its 'supplement', Mathemata, Boethius : Texte Abh. Gesch. Exakt. Wissensch., XII, Steiner (Wiesbaden, 1985), 493-510.
8. V Martin Jadraque, Delambre (Spanish), Gac. Mat. Madrid (1) 8 (1956), 191-193.
9. C L Mathieu, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Biographie universelle (Paris), 304-308.
10. C A Wilson, Perturbations and solar tables from Lacaille to Delambre : the rapprochement of observation and theory 1, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 22 (1-2) (1980), 53-188.
11. C A Wilson, Perturbations and solar tables from Lacaille to Delambre : the rapprochement of observation and theory 2, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 22 (3) (1980), 189-304.

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