Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de (1580-1637)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3917. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Polymath and astronomer, born Belgentier, Var, France, widely educated in Europe. In 1610 his patron, du Vair, acquired a telescope with which Peiresc and Joseph Gaultier were the first in France to see the satellites of Jupiter. With assistants in various locations, he recorded the positions of the satellites of Jupiter and used these observations to calculate terrestrial longitudes. Organized a...

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