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Jean Sylvain Bailly (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ silvɛ̃ baji]; 15 September 1736 – 12 November 1793) was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (born September 15, 1736, Paris—died November 12, 1793, Paris) was a French statesman noted for his role in the French Revolution, particularly in leading the Tennis Court Oath, and an astronomer noted for his computation of an orbit for Halley’s Comet (1759) and for his studies of the four satellites of Jupiter then known.
The Tennis Court Oath was written by Emmanuel Sieyès, administered by Jean-Sylvain Bailly and signed by 576 deputies with one abstainer. Later, the oath was famously depicted by the revolutionary artist Jacques-Louis David.
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-93) was a scientist with moderate political views. He was best known for administering the Tennis Court Oath and serving as the first mayor of the revolutionary Paris Commune .
Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736-1793) by Dan Edelstein, Assistant professor of French, Stanford University. Jean-Sylvain Bailly was born in the Louvre and died less than a mile away, under the guillotine. In the space and time in between, he managed to embody both the Enlightenment scientific establishment and the French revolutionary process: along ...
Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath, served as the mayor of Paris from 1789 to 1791, and was ultimately guillotined during the Reign of Terror.
Jun 26, 2014 · Jean-Sylvain Bailly, an eighteenth-century French astronomer and polymath, elaborated an original interpretation of the prehistoric origins of civilization which anticipated many of the details of the “Aryan myth.”
