Yvon Villarceau
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Antoine-Joseph Yvon Villarceau (1813 – 1883) was a French
France
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 astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

, mathematician
Mathematician
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, and engineer
Engineer
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He constructed an equatorial meridian-instrument and an isochronometric regulator for the Paris Observatory
Paris Observatory
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He wrote Mecanique Celeste. Expose des Methodes de Wronski et Composantes des Forces Perturbatrices suivant les Axes Mobiles (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881) and Sur l'établissement des arches de pont, envisagé au point de vue de la plus grande stabilité (Paris: Imprimerie Impériale, 1853).

He is the eponym of Villarceau circles
Villarceau circles
In geometry, Villarceau circles are a pair of circles produced by cutting a torus diagonally through the center at the correct angle. Given an arbitrary point on a torus, four circles can be drawn through it. One is in the plane parallel to the equatorial plane of the torus. Another is...

, which are two circular sections of a torus
Torus
In geometry, a torus is a surface of revolution generated by revolving a circle in three dimensional space about an axis coplanar with the circle...

other than the two trivial ones.
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