Quotations by Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre

[de Prony's tables] will not serve in the usual cases, but only in extraordinary cases.

The historian owes the dead nothing but the truth.
Histoire de l'astronomie moderne

JOC/EFR February 2006

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