Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre itu apa sih?

Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre () adalah seorang matematikawan dan astronom asal Prancis. Ia juga merupakan direktur Observatorium Paris dan pengarang buku-buku terkenal tentang sejarah astronomi dari zaman kuno sampai abad ke-18.

Ken Alder: The Measure of All Things – The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (The Free Press; New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Singapore; 2002; )

A brief biography of Delambre, partly from the 1880 Encyclopædia Britannica, including an account of Delambre's intervention to request liberation (from French imprisonment) of James Smithson, who went on to endow the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution, national museum of the United States of America

Portrait of Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre from the Lick Observatory Records Digital Archive, UC Santa Cruz Library's Digital Collections

Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre papers Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre papers, MSS 458 at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University