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Jean-Charles de Borda was born at Dax, France on the 4th of May 1733; the son of Jean‐Antoine de Borda and Jeanne‐Marie Therese de Lacroix.
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Jean-Charles de Borda was born at Dax, France on the 4th of May 1733; the son of Jean‐Antoine de Borda and Jeanne‐Marie Therese de Lacroix.
He studied at La Fleche.
Borda obtained a commission in the cavalry at an early age. He was present at the battle of Hastembeck, and soon afterwards joined the naval service. He visited the Azores and the Canary Islands, of which he constructed an admirable map. In 1782 his frigate was taken by a British squadron; he himself was carried to England, but was almost immediately released on parole and returned to France. He died at Paris on the 20th of February 1799.
Borda contributed a long series of valuable memoirs to the Academy of Sciences. His researches in hydrodynamics were highly useful for marine engineering, while the reflecting and repeating circles, as improved by him, were of great service in nautical astronomy. He was associated with J. B. J. Delambre and P. F. A. Mechain in the attempt to determine an arc of the meridian, and the greater number of the instruments employed in the task were invented by him.
In 1756 he presented a Memoire sur le mouvement des projectiles to the Academy of Sciences. For that, he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1764. In 1770, Borda formulated a ranked preferential voting system that is referred to as the Borda count. He constructed the standard metre, basis of the metric system to correspond to the measurements of Delambre. He also he improved the reflecting circle and the repeating circle. The crater Borda on the Moon is named after him, as well as Cape Borda on the northwest coast of Kangaroo Island in South Australia. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
