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Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, born Harlay (1768〔Poirier Jean-Pierre, Haigneré Claudie, ''Histoire des femmes en science en France, Du Moyen Age à la Révolution'', Pygmalion, 2002.〕–1832), was a French astronomer and mathematician. ==Biography== She was the illegitimate daughter of astronomer Joseph Jerome de Lalande (1732-1807). She married her father's cousin, also an astronomer, Michel Le Francais de Lalande (1776-1839) in 1788. Her father taught the young couple calculation and observation methods in astronomy. She worked closely alongside her father and contributed to many of his publications. Her reputation as a scientific women is attested by an anecdote related to Carl Friedrich Gauss: In 1806, during a military campaign in Prussia, he declared he knew but one French woman that worked in Science, Madame Le François de Lalande"〔Calendrier Astronomes Françaises : du siècle des Lumières à l'ère spatiale, 2010. ()〕 She died in 1832 at the age of 64. Her daughter, Caroline was named after Caroline Herschel, her birth date, 20 January 1790 being the first day a Comet discovered by Herschel was visible from Peris.〔 Her son was named after Isaac Newton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marie-Jeanne de Lalande」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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