Agnes Mary Clerke

“ Attracted to astronomy by the solar eclipse of the 12th of May 1706, he obtained permission in 1710 to lodge in the dome of the Luxembourg, procured some instruments, and there observed the total eclipse of the 22nd of May 1724. ”

“ See Mémoires de l’acad. des sciences (Paris, 1768) , Histoire, p. 167 (G. de Fouchy) ; J. B. J. Delambre, Hist. de l’astronomie au XVIIIe siècle, pp. 319, 533; Max. Marie, Hist. des sciences, vii. 254; Lalande, Bibl. astr. p. 385; and Le Nécrologe des hommes célèbres de France (1770) . The records of Delisle’s observations at St Petersburg are preserved in manuscript at the Pulkowa observatory. A report upon them was presented to the St Petersburg academy of sciences by O. Struve in 1848, and those relating to occultations of the Pleiades were discussed by Carl Linsser in 1864. ”