Adrien Auzout ( January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years). Events 1521 - Diet of Worms begins, lasting until May 25. 1547 - Edward VI becomes King, and the first Protestant ruler of England. 1573 - Articles of Warsaw Confederation are... January 28th, Events January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. February 8 - King James I of England disbands the English Parliament. March 22 - In the Jamestown massacre, Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia (1/3... 1622– May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). There are 222 days remaining. Events 1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola is executed on the orders of... May 23rd, Events March 5 - French troops under Marshal Louis-Francois de Boufflers besiege the Spanish-held town of Mons March 29 - Siege of Mons ends to the city’s surrender Treaty of Limerick penalizes public worship of catholics and Presbyterians Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Suleiman II... 1691) was a Wiktionary has a definition of: French French in its formal sense and used in its capitalized form, denotes: Something from or related to France. The French city of Paris has many fine restaurants. The French language. Official language of France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, and many other countries. The French people... French Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. Start the AstroNomer article If you have created this page in the past few minutes and it has not yet appeared, it may not be visible due to a delay in updating the database. Please wait and check again... astronomer.

He was born in Location within France Rouen (pronounced in French, sometimes also ) is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northern France, and presently the capital of the Upper Normandy région. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe, Rouen was the seat of the Exchequer of... Rouen, The French Republic or France ( French: République française or France) is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. France is a democracy organised as a... France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is unknown. In Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain. September 24 - Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam to an English naval squadron commanded by Colonel Richard Nicolls. Births Thomas Newcomen, English inventor Categories: 1664 ... 1664– Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War March 6 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society begins publication March 16 - Bucharest allows Jews to settle in the city in exchange of annual tax of 16 guilders June 3 - The Duke of York defeats the Dutch Fleet off the... 1665 made observations of Comet Hale-Bopp, showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997) Comet (disambiguation). A comet is a small astronomical object similar to an asteroid but composed largely of ice. Comets typically move in highly elliptical orbits, the aphelia of which may be many times more distant than... comets, and argued in favor of their following In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek for absence) is a curve where the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus). Thus an ellipse can be drawn with two pins, a... elliptical or A parabola A parabola (from the Greek: παραβολή) is a conic section generated by the intersection of a cone, and a plane tangent to the cone or parallel to some plane tangent to the cone. If the plane is itself tangent to the... parabolic For other meanings of the term orbit, see orbit (disambiguation) In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, whilst under the influence of a source of centripetal force, such as gravity. History Orbits were first analysed mathematically by Kepler who formulated his results in... orbits. (In this he was opposed by his rival Johannes Hevelius Johannes Hevelius or Johann Hewelke or Johannes Hewel (German) or Jan Heweliusz (Polish) (January 28, 1611-January 28, 1687) was an astronomer; called the founder of lunar topography. He was born in Gdansk, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1611 to family of wealthy brewing merchants of Czech origins. He... Johannes Hevelius.) Adrien was briefly a member of the Académie Royale des Sciences from Events September 2 - Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in London in the house of Charles IIs baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Pauls Cathedral, but only 16 people are known to... 1666 to Events January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed. February 13 Lisbon - Peace Treaty between Afonso VI of Portugal and Carlos II of Spain, by mediation of Charles II of England where it is recognized the legitimity of the Portuguese monarch. Portugal yields Ceuta to Spain. The first Treaty of... 1668, and a founding member of the french Royal Obseratory. (He may have left the academy due to a dispute.) He then left for The Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries of San... Italy and spent the next 20 years in that region, finally dying in The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50N, 12°15E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat... Rome in Events March 5 - French troops under Marshal Louis-Francois de Boufflers besiege the Spanish-held town of Mons March 29 - Siege of Mons ends to the city’s surrender Treaty of Limerick penalizes public worship of catholics and Presbyterians Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Suleiman II... 1691. Little is known about his activities during this last period.

Adrien Auzout made contributions in 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. A telescope (from the Greek tele = far away and skopos = to look at, also from teleskopos = far-seeing) is an important astronomical tool which gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation. Telescopes increase the apparent angular size of objects, as well as their apparent brightness... telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the A micrometer is a widely used device in mechanical engineering for precisely measuring thickness of blocks, outer and inner diameters of shafts and depths of slots. Micrometers have several advantages over other types of measuring instruments like the Vernier calliper: they are easy to use and their readouts are consistent... micrometer. In Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. August 8 - The Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces. August - Peter Stuyvesant appointed Director of New Amsterdam by the Dutch West India Company. Johann von Werth tried to... 1647 he performed an experiment that demonstrated the role of air pressure in function of the General Name, Symbol, Number Mercury, Hg, 80 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12 (IIB), 6 , d Density, Hardness liquid 13.579e3 kg/m3 solid @ -39oC 15.6e3 kg/m3 1.5 Mohs Appearance Silvery white Atomic properties Atomic weight 200.59 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 150 (171) pm... mercury Schematic drawing of a simple mercury barometer with vertical mercury column and reservoir at base A barometer is an instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure. A standard mercury barometer has a glass column of about 30 inches (about 76 cm) in height, closed at one end, with an open mercury... barometer. He is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge telescope 1,000 feet in length that he would use to observe Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa ? Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc.)     Hemichordata (acorn worms)     Echinodermata    ? Chaetognatha (arrow worms) Superphylum Ecdysozoa     Kinorhyncha     Loricifera    ... animals on the For other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0.6% Sodium 0.3% Chromium 0.2% Potassium 0.1% Manganese 0.1% Sulfur 0.1... Moon. In 1667–68, Arien and Jean-Felix Picard (July 21, 1620 – July 12, 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Fleche. He was the first person to measure the size of the Earth to a reasonable degree of accuracy. This was achieved by measuring one degree of latitude along the Paris... Jean Picard attached a telescopic sight to a 38-inch The word quadrant can mean: A region of the Cartesian coordinate plane with a specific sign for the x and y coordinates: (+, +), (-, +), (-, -) or (-, +). It is the 2-dimensional case of an Orthant Another name for sextant Also see the Wiktionary entry on Quadrant. This is a disambiguation page — a... quadrant, and used it to accurately determine positions on the Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. It is the largest of the solar systems terrestrial planets, and the only planetary body that modern science confirms as harboring life. The planet formed around 4.5 billion (4.5×109) years... Earth.

The Autout is a lunar crater that is located to the southeast of the Mare Crisium, near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this crater appears quite oval, but it actually relatively circular in form. Attached to the southern rim is the smaller van Albada crater. To the... Auzout crater on the For other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). Crust composition Oxygen 43% Silicon 21% Aluminium 10% Calcium 9% Iron 9% Magnesium 5% Titanium 2% Nickel 0.6% Sodium 0.3% Chromium 0.2% Potassium 0.1% Manganese 0.1% Sulfur 0.1... Moon is named for him.

External links

• Galileo Project entry (http://galileo.rice.edu/Catalog/NewFiles/auzout.html)