Works
- Méthodes analytiques pour la détermination d'un arc du méridien (Crapelet, Paris, 1799)
- Notice historique sur M. Méchain, lue le 5 messidor XIII (Baudouin, Paris, January 1806; this is the eulogy on the late Pierre Méchain, read at the Academy by Secretary Delambre on June 24, 1805)
- Base du système métrique décimal, ou Mesure de l'arc du méridien – compris entre les parralèles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, executée en 1792 et années suivantes, par MM. Méchain et Delambre. (editor; Baudouin, Imprimeur de l'Institut National; Paris; 3. vol.; January 1806, 1807, 1810; this includes both his own and Méchain's data gathered during the meridian survey 1792–1799 and calculations derived thereof)
- Rapport historique sur le progrès des sciences mathématiques depuis 1799 (Imprimerie Impériale, Paris, 1810)
- A history of astronomy, comprising four works and six volumes in all:
- Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1817. 2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxii, 556 pp., 1 folded plate; vol. 2, viii, 639 pp., 16 folded plates. OCLC 490232972.
Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (Sources of Science, #23), with a new preface by Otto Neugebauer. OCLC 648488.
Text on line: vol. 1, ; vol. 2, . - Histoire de l'astronomie du moyen age, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1819. lxxxiv, 640 pp., 17 folded plates. OCLC 490233042.
Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1965 (Sources of Science, #24.) OCLC 647834.
Also reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2006. OCLC 494627038.
Text on line: . - Histoire de l'astronomie moderne, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1821. 2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxxii, 715 pp., 9 folded plates; vol. 2, 804 pp., 8 folded plates. OCLC 490233154.
Reprinted by New York and London: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1969 (Sources of Science, #25), with a new introduction and tables of contents by I. Bernard Cohen. OCLC 647838.
Also reprinted by Paris: Editions Jacques Gabay, 2006. OCLC 493779358.
This takes the history to the 17th century.
Text on line: both volumes, with usable plates, ; vol. 1, ; vol. 2, . - Histoire de l'astronomie au dix-huitième siècle, edited by Claude-Louis Mathieu, Paris: Bachelier (successeur de Mme Ve Courcier), 1827. lii, 796 p., 3 folded plates. OCLC 490233264
Reprinted by Paris: J. Gabay, 2004. OCLC 470502171.
This includes the history of astronomy in the 18th century, especially critiques of his colleagues at the Academy, which he withheld to be published posthumously.
Text on line: ; with usable plates, .
- Histoire de l'astronomie ancienne, Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, 1817. 2 volumes; vol. 1, lxxii, 556 pp., 1 folded plate; vol. 2, viii, 639 pp., 16 folded plates. OCLC 490232972.
- Grandeur et figure de la Terre (edited by Guillaume Bigourdan, Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, 1912; this is about the size and the shape of the Earth)
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