Lacaille, Abbé Nicholas [Nicolas] Louis de (1713-62)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3784. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Rumigny, France. From 1750 to 1754 he led an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was the first to measure the curvature of the Earth in South Africa, and, with a small telescope, compiled a still-used catalogue of nearly 10 000 southern stars. In the course of his survey he discovered and listed 50 nebulous objects (eight are now regarded as non-existent). He classif...

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