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Jacques-André Mallet
Jacques-André Mallet (); also Mallet-Favre; 23 September 1740 – 31 January 1790) was a Genevan mathematician and astronomer. In 1772, Mallet established and co-financed the first Geneva Observatory, and served as its director until his death in 1790. His research primarily concerned occultations, especially lunar eclipse, lunar and solar eclipse, solar eclipses, sunspots, Orbit#Planetary orbits, planetary orbits, and the orbits of the moons of Jupiter. Biography Early life and education Jacques-André was born in Geneva to Jean-Robert, a Ranks in the French Army#Officiers subalternes - junior officers, captain in the French Army, and his wife, Dorothée Favre, both of Nobility, noble lineage. Jean-Robert was from a branch of the Mallet family of Huguenot merchants and bankers who had fled from Rouen to Geneva in 1557 to escape growing Anti-Protestantism, religious persecution. Through his mother, Dorothée, Jacques-André was also a direct descendant of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated in the south west of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Canton of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city of Geneva () had a population 201,818 in 2019 (Jan. estimate) within its small municipal territory of , but the Canton of Geneva (the city and its closest Swiss suburbs and exurbs) had a population of 499,480 (Jan. 2019 estimate) over , and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French Departments of France, departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over ,As of 2020, the Eurostat-defined Functional Urban Area of Geneva was made up of 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
