Nicolas Halma
Nicolas Halma (Sedan, the December 31st 1755 - Paris, the June 4th 1828) was a French mathematician.
After having made its studies with the college of Plessis, to Paris, it enters the orders. In 1791, it becomes principal college of Sedan. When this firm establishment, in 1793, it goes to Paris and becomes surgeon in the army. It is named secretary with the Polytechnic school in 1794, while teaching mathematics with the Academy of Paris, and the geography at the Military academy of Fontainebleau. With the Restoration, he is curator of the Bibliothèque Holy-Genevieve, and Chanoine of Notre-Dame.
It had been charged in 1808 by the Minister of Interior Department to continue the French history of Velly, and had prepared two handwritten volumes. Its most important work remains the translation of Latin to French of the Almageste of Ptolémée (1813-1816). It also translated the Commentaires of Théon of Alexandria (1822-1825), and writes several works on the ancient astronomy, among which a Egyptian Astrologie (1824) and a historical and critical Examen of the astronomical monuments of old the (1830).
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