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  1. Jul 21, 2012 · Jean Picard was born in La Flèche, a town on the banks of the Loire. Nothing was known about his family and early life until the research of Olmsted presented in [8]. The details we give about Picard's family and early life are taken from this work.

  2. Despite these ongoing problems, John Shakespeare likely enrolled his son in the King’s New School in Stratford at the age of 7. In grammar school, Shakespeare would have been subjected to intensive training in Latin that lasted all day, six days a week.

    • Background Jean Picard
    • Astronomical Research
    • Towards More Accurate Maps
    • Scientific Instruments
    • Further Achievements

    Jean-Félix Picard was born as a son of a bookseller and was allowed to study at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, which was considered one of the best educational centers in France. It is assumed that he left the institution without a degree and moved to Paris due to the unstable situation in France. In Paris, he met the well established ast...

    However, it is known that he exchanged letters with Christian Huygens , Ole Rømer , and Giovanni Cassini  and it is assumed that he was highly respected as a scientist at that time. Also, he became one of the first members of the Academie Royal des Sciences one year after its founding by Colbert in 1666. Between 1669 and 1670, Picard was the first ...

    On June 21, 1667, the day of the summer solstice, Adrien Auzout, Jacques Buot, Bernard Frénicle de Bessy, Jean Picard and Jean Richer, mathematicians and astronomers of the Académie Royale des Sciences, fixed the meridian of Paris by a mark on a stone over which the Paris Observatory was subsequently built. In 1668, Colbert informed the members of ...

    In 1667 and 1668, he worked together with Adrien Auzout to equip the previous quadrants, which were equipped with simple sights, with measuring telescopes and to install crosshair eyepieces and micrometers in these telescopes. For nighttime observations, the fine filaments suspended in the eyepiece could be made visible by a lateral light source. E...

    He was also an important member of the team that began to compile a map of France based on scientific principles and he became a major figure in the development of scientific cartography. In 1673 he was at the Paris observatory collaborating with Cassini, Rømer, and La Hire  on the institute’s regular project of observations. Picard directed his at...

  3. Oct 8, 2024 · (1620–1682) French astronomer. Born at La Flèche in northwestern France, Picard succeeded Pierre Gassendi as professor of astronomy at the Collège de France in 1655. He helped to found the Paris Observatory and conducted fundamental researches into the size of the Earth.

  4. What was William Shakespeare's school life like? What school did he attend? Was he top of the class? Unfortunately, there is very little evidence remaining, so historians have pulled together multiple sources to give a sense of what his school life would have been like.

  5. The school system for working class children in Victorian times. This page gives firsthand experience of what was called the Board School in the later years of the Victorian era. Yet it is puzzling because Board Schools were abolished in 1902 and the page was written from recollections in the years around 1910.

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  7. when they start so early in the morning and return home from school by approximately 2pm, they also have greater opportunities to fall into trouble. During these times, many of these teens do not have adult supervision.

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