Louis-Pierre-Eugène Sédillot
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Louis-Pierre-Eugène Amélie Sédillot (born in Paris June 23, 1808; died 1875), was a French orientalist and historian of science and mathematics.
, worked alongside Delambre and Laplace
. His older brother, Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, became a renowned surgeon. Louis-Pierre-Eugene also showed predispositions towards study. He began his career as a history teacher before becoming Secretary of the Collège de France
and the School of Oriental Languages in 1832.
Biography
His father, Jean Jacques Emmanuel Sédillot, orientalist and astronomerAstronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
, worked alongside Delambre and Laplace
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste...
. His older brother, Charles-Emmanuel Sédillot, became a renowned surgeon. Louis-Pierre-Eugene also showed predispositions towards study. He began his career as a history teacher before becoming Secretary of the Collège de France
Collège de France
The Collège de France is a higher education and research establishment located in Paris, France, in the 5th arrondissement, or Latin Quarter, across the street from the historical campus of La Sorbonne at the intersection of Rue Saint-Jacques and Rue des Écoles...
and the School of Oriental Languages in 1832.
Selected works
- Manuel de la Bourse, contenant des notions exactes sur les effets publics français et étrangers, avec l'état de leur cours respectif depuis l'origine ; sur les affaires qui se traitent à la Bourse de Paris, 1829
- Traité des instruments astronomiques des Arabes composé au treizième siècle par Aboul Hhassan Ali, de Maroc, intitulé Collection des commencements et des fins, traduit de l'arabe sur le manuscrit 1147 de la Bibliothèque royale par J.-J. Sédillot, et publié par L.-Am. Sédillot, 2 volumes, 1834–1835
- Manuel classique de chronologie, 2 volumes, 1834–1850
- Mémoire sur les instruments astronomiques des Arabes, 1841
- Mémoire sur les systèmes géographiques des Grecs et des Arabes, 1842
- Supplément au Traité des instruments astronomiques des Arabes, 1844
- Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire comparée des sciences mathématiques chez les Grecs et les Orientaux, 2 volumes, 1845–1849
- Prolégomènes des tables astronomiques d'Oloug-Beg, publiés avec notes et variantes et précédés d'une introduction, 1847
- Histoire des Arabes, 1854 ; 1877. Reprint: Plan-de-la-Tour : Éd. d'Aujourd'hui, coll. « Les Introuvables », 1984
- Mémoire sur l'origine de nos chiffres, 1865
- Les Professeurs de mathématiques et de physique générale au Collège de France, 1869. Reprint: Ann Arbor : UMI, 1992