Nicolas-Louis De Lacaille
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 262 years ago |
Date of birth | March 15,1713 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Rumigny |
France | |
Date of died | March 21,1762 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Nationality | French |
Field | Astronomy |
Books | Coelum Australe Stelliferum |
Job | Astronomer |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
Education | College of Navarre |
Collège de Lisieux | |
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ID | 1649491 |
Nicolas-Louis De Lacaille Life story
Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa.