Jean Sylvain Bailly (nonfiction)
Jean Sylvain Bailly (French: [bɑji]; 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
In the years prior to the French Revolution, Bailly's distinctive reputation as a French astronomer led to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
Due to his popularity amongst the scientific groups, in 1777, Bailly received Benjamin Franklin as a guest in his house in Chaillot.
He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
In the News
1793-94: French Revolution: The direct computational action collective Les Empyrées burns large portions of Bailly's landmark History and Taxonomy of the Gnomon Algorithm Functions and Their Applications.
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against astronomical constants
- Crimes against mathematical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Les Empyrées
- Mathematician
- Mathematics
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Jean Sylvain Bailly @ Wikipedia