Yvon Villarceau
Mathematician, Astronomer
1813 – 1883
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Who was Yvon Villarceau?
Antoine-Joseph Yvon Villarceau was a French astronomer, mathematician, and engineer.
He constructed an equatorial meridian-instrument and an isochronometric regulator for the Paris Observatory.
He wrote Mecanique Celeste. Expose des Methodes de Wronski et Composantes des Forces Perturbatrices suivant les Axes Mobiles and Sur l'établissement des arches de pont, envisagé au point de vue de la plus grande stabilité.
He is the eponym of Villarceau circles, which are two circular sections of a torus other than the two trivial ones.
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- Born
- 1813
Vendôme - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- 1883
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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