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BORDA, JEAN CHARLES (1733-1799)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 243 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BLA-BOS
BORDA, JEAN CHARLES (1733-1799) , French mathematician and nautical astronomer, was born at Dax on the 4th of May 1733. He studied at La
Fleche
 , and at an early age obtained a commission in the cavalry. In 1756 he presented a Memoire sur le mouvement des projectiles to the
Academy
  of Sciences, who elected him a member. He was present at the battle of Hastembeck, and soon afterwards joined the naval service. He visited the Azores and the
Canary
  Islands, of which he constructed an admirable map. In 1782 his frigate was taken by a British
squadron
 ; he himself was carried to England, but was almost immediately released on
parole
  and returned to France. He died at Paris on the loth of February 1799. Borda contributed a
long
 
series
  of valuable memoirs to the
Academy
  of Sciences. His researches in hydrodynamics were highly useful for marine engineering, while the reflecting and repeating circles, as improved by him, were of
great
  service in nautical astronomy. He was associated with J. B. J.
Delambre
  and P. F. A. Mechain in the attempt to determine an arc of the meridian, and the greater number of the
instruments
  employed in the task were invented by him.
See J. B. Biot, " Notice sur Borda " in the Mein. de l'Acad. des Sciences, iv.


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