Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain). His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but as a result of lodging in the Hôtel Cluny, where Delisle had his observatory, he was drawn to astronomy, and became the zealous and favoured pupil of both Delisle ...
Jérôme Lalande (born July 11, 1732, Bourg-en-Bresse, France—died April 4, 1807, Paris) was a French astronomer whose tables of planetary positions were considered the best available until the end of the 18th century. Lalande, JérômeJérôme Lalande, French commemorative coin.(more) A...