Editing Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (section)

==Works==
[[File:Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph – Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1817 – BEIC 618287.jpg|thumb|Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, 1817]]
[[File:Delambre-3.jpg|thumb|Title page of an 1817 copy of "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"]]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=-jIVAAAAQAAJ Méthodes analytiques pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien] (Crapelet, Paris, 1799)
*''Notice historique sur M. Méchain, lue le 5 messidor XIII'' (Baudouin, Paris, January 1806; this is the eulogy on the late Pierre Méchain, read at the academy by Secretary Delambre on 24 June 1805)
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=6DEVAAAAQAAJ Base du système métrique décimal, ou Mesure de l'arc du méridien – compris entre les parallèles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, exécutée en 1792 et années suivantes, par MM. Méchain et Delambre.] (editor; Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National; Paris; 3. vol.; January 1806, 1807, 1810; this includes both his own and Méchain's data gathered during the meridian survey 1792–1799 and calculations derived thereof)
*''Rapport historique sur le progrès des sciences mathématiques depuis 1799'' (Imprimerie Impériale, Paris, 1810)
*''[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011678884?type%5B%5D=title&lookfor%5B%5D=Tables%20%C3%A9cliptiques%20des%20satellites%20de%20Jupiter&ft=ft Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter: d'après la théorie de M. le Marquis de Laplace, et la totalité des observations faites depuis 1662 jusqu'à l'an 1802]'' (Paris : Courcier, 1817.)
*A history of astronomy, comprising four works and six volumes in all:
**''Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne'', Paris: M<sup>me</sup> V<sup>e</sup> Courcier, 1817.  2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxii, 556 pp., 1 folded plate; vol. 2, viii, 639 pp., [1], 16 folded plates. {{OCLC|490232972}}.<br />Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (''Sources of Science'', #23), with a new preface by Otto Neugebauer.  {{OCLC|648488}}.<br />Text on line: vol. 1, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4qoaAAAAYAAJ], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015073350236], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015077830456]; vol. 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=km0rAAAAYAAJ], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015077830464].
**''Histoire de l'astronomie du moyen age'', Paris: M<sup>me</sup> V<sup>e</sup> Courcier, 1819.  lxxxiv, 640 pp., 17 folded plates.  {{OCLC|490233042}}.<br />Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (''Sources of Science'', #24.)  {{OCLC|647834}}.<br />Also reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2006. {{OCLC|494627038}}.<br />Text on line: [https://books.google.com/books?id=QREOAAAAQAAJ].
**''Histoire de l'astronomie moderne'', Paris: M<sup>me</sup> V<sup>e</sup> Courcier, 1821.  2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxxii, 715 pp., [1], 9 folded plates; vol. 2, [4], 804 pp., 8 folded plates.  {{OCLC|490233154}}.<br />Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 (''Sources of Science'', #25), with a new introduction and tables of contents by I. Bernard Cohen.  {{OCLC|647838}}.<br />Also reprinted by Paris: Editions Jacques Gabay, 2006.  {{OCLC|493779358}}.<br />This takes the history to the 17th century.<br />Text on line: both volumes, with usable plates, [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:2404611]; vol. 1, [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015017146823], [https://books.google.com/books?id=MKwaAAAAYAAJ], [https://books.google.com/books?id=yRAOAAAAQAAJ]; vol. 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hrUaAAAAYAAJ].
**''Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle'', edited by Claude-Louis Mathieu, Paris: Bachelier (successeur de M<sup>me</sup> V<sup>e</sup> Courcier), 1827.  lii, 796 p., 3 folded plates.  {{OCLC|490233264}}<br />Reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2004.  {{OCLC|470502171}}.<br />This includes the history of astronomy in the 18th century, especially critiques of his colleagues at the academy, which he withheld to be published posthumously.<br />Text on line: [https://books.google.com/books?id=1EgtAAAAYAAJ]; with usable plates, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k61990q].
*[[iarchive:grandeuretfigure00dela|Grandeur et figure de la terre, ouvrage augmenté de notes, de cartes (1912)]](edited by Guillaume Bigourdan, Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1912; about the [[figure of the Earth]])
[https://bibnum.obspm.fr/ark:/11287/27xc8 Some works are digitalized] on [[Paris Observatory]] digital library.<gallery>
File:Delambre-1.jpg|1817 copy of "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"
File:Delambre-4.jpg|1817 introduction to "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"
File:Delambre-5.jpg|1817 introduction to "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"
File:Delambre-6.jpg|1817 introduction to "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"
File:Delambre-7.jpg|Excerpt from an 1817 copy of "''Tables écliptiques des satellites de Jupiter''"
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