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Jean-Charles de Borda
Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (
May 4,
1733 –
February 19,
1799), was a
French mathematician,
physicist,
political scientist, and
sailor. Born in the city of
Dax, in
1756 Borda wrote Mémoire sur le mouvement des projectiles, a product of his work as a
military engineer. For that, he was elected to the
French Academy of Sciences in
1764. Borda was a mariner and a scientist, spending time in the
Caribbean testing out advances in chronometers. Between 1777 and 1778, he participated in the
American Revolutionary War. In 1781, he was put in charge of several vessels in the
French Navy. In
1782, he was captured by the English, and was returned to France shortly after. He returned as an engineer in the French Navy, making improvements to waterwheels and pumps. He was appointed as France's Inspector of Naval Shipbuilding in 1784, and with the assistance of the naval architect
Jacques-Noël Sané in 1786 introduced a massive construction programme to revitalise the French navy based on the standard designs of Sané.
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v.
edge, rim; verge, border; bind
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v.
edge
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gunwale, upper part of a boat; mainsail, sail on the lower part of the mainmast (Nautical); hut, cottage
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v.
embroider, decorate with ornamental needlework
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edge, border, verge; skirting; shore; outskirts
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embroider; border
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