Marie-Charles Damoiseau


Baron Marie-Charles-Théodore de Damoiseau de Montfort was a French astronomer.
Damoiseau was originally an artillery officer but he left France in 1792 during the French Revolution. He worked as assistant director of the Lisbon Observatory before he returned to France in 1807.
In 1825, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences. He was a member of the Bureau des Longitudes.
He is best known for publishing lunar tables between 1824-1828.

Scientific work

Theory of the Moon

In 1818 Laplace proposed that the Académie des Sciences in Paris set up a prize to be awarded to whoever succeeded in constructing lunar tables based solely on the law of universal gravity. In 1820 the prize was awarded to Carlini and Plana and to Damoiseau by a committee of which Laplace was a member.

Satellites of Jupiter

See also
The Paris observatory holds a large set of manuscripts from Damoiseau. See Manuscrits Damoiseau on http://alidade.obspm.fr

Publications