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Recherches historiques sur la première explication de l'équation séculaire du moyen mouvement de la lune d'après le principe de la gravitation universelle
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in 1803, which came under the control of the French in 1805. In 1811 he was appointed to the chair of astronomy at the
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thanks to the influence of Lagrange. He spent the remainder of his life teaching at that institution.
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in 1840 at the invitation of Giovanni Plana. Plana became astronomer royal, and then in 1844 a
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based on the construction of lunar tables using the law of gravity. In 1832 he published the
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Mémoire sur l'équation séculaire du moyen mouvement de la lune
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MacTutor History of Mathematics - University of St Andrews
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Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the
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Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Voghera
Sardinia-Piedmont
Turin
Kingdom of Italy
École Polytechnique
Copley Medal
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
Astronomy
Mathematics
University of Turin
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph Fourier
astronomer
mathematician
Plana
Voghera
Grenoble
École Polytechnique
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph Fourier
Piedmont
University of Turin
Moon
integrals
Abel–Plana formula
elliptic functions
heat
electrostatics
geodesy

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