Authority Cited: Ozenam (Ozanam in 4th)
Author name and dates: Jacques Ozanam (1640-1718?)
BKG Bio-tweet: French mathematician; numerous pub.; improved trigonometric and logarithmic tables; SJ uses in definition of “descension”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Ozanam cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Ozanam cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
Author name and dates: Jacques Ozanam (1640-1718?)
BKG Bio-tweet: French mathematician; numerous pub.; improved trigonometric and logarithmic tables; SJ uses in definition of “descension”
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Ozanam cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. No Ozanam cites identified as added in the 1773 Dict.]
- Dictionanaire Mathematique ou Idee Generale des Mathematiques, Dans Lequel l' Ontrouve . . . Par M. Ozanam, Professeur des Mathematiques, 1690, A Paris: Chez Estienne de Michallate, Imprimeur du Roy, Rue Sainte Jacques, a l'Image saint Paul
- Ozanam (no work cited); decension (Dict.: "[In astronomy.] Right descension is the arch of the equator, which descends with the sign or star below the horizon of a direct sphere. Oblique descension is the arch of the equator, which descends with the sign below the horizon of an oblique sphere. Ozenam.") See image below, lines 33-38 for L'Ascension Droite and L'Ascension Oblique.
