Jacques-Marie Le Père
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| Born | April 25, 1763 |
| Died | June 15, 1841 (aged 78) |
Jacques-Marie Le Père (Paris, 25 April 1763 – Granville, 15 June 1841) was a French civil engineer.
Life
He accompanied the
Ptolemy II, he was commissioned by Bonaparte to edit an account of the Canal. He was made a member of the Institut d'Égypte
on 22 August 1798, in the mathematics section.
With his brother
Mediterranean and Red Sea, an error which persisted until the measurements carried out by Paul-Adrien Bourdaloue
in 1847.
After his return to France, he spent a long time as divisional inspector of 'ponts et chaussées' in Paris, then as inspector of Paris from 1822 to 1830.[1]
Works
- Mémoire sur la communication de la mer des Indes à la Méditerranée par la mer Rouge et l’isthme de Soueys, in Description de l'Égypte, l'État moderne, vol XI, Paris, Imprimerie Panckouke, 1822.[2]
- Mémoire sur la vallée du Nil et le nilomètre de l'île de Roudah, in Description de l'Égypte, l'État moderne II (2e Partie) (p. 527 - 570), Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1822[3]
Notes
- ^ Edouard de Villiers du Terrage, Journal et souvenirs sur l'expédition d'Égypte, mis en ordre et publiés par le baron Marc de Villiers du Terrage, Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit, 1899, et L'expédition d'Égypte 1798-1801, Journal et souvenirs d'un jeune savant, Paris, Cosmopole, 2001 et 2003, p. 371
- ^ Vol XI
- ^ Vol XII
Further reading
- Karabell, Zachary (2003). Parting the desert: the creation of the Suez Canal. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-375-40883-5.
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