Jacques d'Allonville

Jacques Eugène d' Allonville, Chevalier de Louville par Fontenelle (* July 14, 1671 at Château de Louville, Louville -la- Chenard at Chartres; † September 10, 1732 in Saint -Jean -de- Braye ) was a French astronomer and mathematician.

Life

D' Allonville was first naval officer, but took after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 and his retirement he dedicated himself to the study of astronomy. In 1714 he became a member of the Académie des sciences. He built an observatory at Orléans and in the following years published a series of works in which the theories of Newton, he made it his own. He has been dealing with the prediction of eclipses.

For a stay in England, where he observed the known as Halley's Eclipse Total Solar Eclipse of May 3, 1715, he made ​​the acquaintance of Newton and was a member of the Royal Society.

The lunar crater Louville is named after him.

Works

• Observations sur l' obliquité de l' écliptique, 1714
• Nouvelles tables du soleil, 1720
• Nouvelle méthode de les calculer Eclipses, 1724
• Remarques sur la question des forces vives, 1721-28.