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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 sailor 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 1782Events January 7 The first American commercial bank opens ( Bank of North America). January 15 Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage February 5 Span, 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.

Borda invented a voting systemUS in 1945 Voting systems are methods ( algorithms) for groups of people to select one or more options from many, taking into account the individual preferences of the group members. Voting is often seen as the defining feature of democracy, and is best k known as the Borda countThe Borda count is a voting system devised by Jean-Charles de Borda (who was apparently preceded by Nicholas of Cusa ), used for single or multiple-seat elections. This form of voting is extremely popular in determining awards for sports in the United Sta, which is still widely advocated by election system reformers around the world. As a contemporary of the Marquis de CondorcetMarie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet ( September 17, 1743 March 28, 1794) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist who devised the concept of a Condorcet method. Ahead of his time in many respects as an 18, he engaged in many scholarly debates regarding the merits of their respective voting systems (Condorcet advocated a Condorcet methodCondorcet criterion Any election method conforming to the Condorcet criterion is known as a Condorcet method . The name comes from its deviser, the 18th century mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet, although the method was previously devised)

He is honored by an eponymous craterBorda is a lunar crater that lies between Santbech crater to the north-northwest and Reichenbach crater slightly further away to the south-southeast. It has a low rim that is broken along the southeast by a smaller crater. The rim is intruded into by anot on the MoonFor other moons in the solar system see natural satellite. For other uses see Moon (disambiguation). The Moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It has no formal name other than "The Moon" although it is occasionally called Luna ( Latin for moon to d.