Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

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French astronomer and cartographer

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732. Wikipedia

Born: April 4, 1688, Paris, France

Died: September 11, 1768 (age 80 years), Paris, France

Academic advisors: Jacques Cassini and Giacomo F. Maraldi

Notable students: Jérôme Lalande, Guillaume Le Gentil, and Johann Friedrich Hennert

Books: A Letter from a Russian Sea-Officer, to a Person of Distinction at the Court of St. Petersburgh: Containing His Remarks Upon Mr. de L'Isle's Chart and Memoir, Relative to the New Discoveries Northward and Eastward from Kamtschatka. Together with Some Observations on that Letter

Parents: Claude Delisle

Siblings: Guillaume Delisle