delambre in a sentence

1. In 1817, Delambre asked: ”Did Ptolemy do any observing?

2. Delambre and his friends formed their own literary club.

3. A scientist, Andre Delambre, has invented a teleportation device.

4. They walked up the Rue Delambre together, arrived Place Edgar-Quinet.

5. How does the modern version compare to the original measurements by Méchain and Delambre?

6. At the Rue Delambre, Gauguin and Breton lodged at the same house, but at different times.

7. “Every man has a duty to seek in his life the place from which he can best serve his generation,” says Humboldt in a letter to the French astronomer Delambre.

8. The grateful parents even offered him a sinecure in their financial offices, but Delambre accepted a more modest annuity that would enable him to devote the rest of his life to study.

9. It was only at Quito, that a letter from M. Delambre, perpetual secretary of the first class of the Institute, informed us, that captain Baudin went by the Cape of Good Hope, without touching on the eastern or western coasts of America.

10. In the middle of the French Revolution, astronomers Jean Delambre and Pierre Méchain were therefore sent out to measure the earth and to derive a new unit of measurement from the data: exactly the ten millionth part between the North Pole and the equator was to define the meter.