de Chéseaux, Philippe Loys (1718-51)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3572. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Swiss astronomer, observed several clusters and `nebulous stars', and compiled a catalog of their positions, giving it to Reaumur, who presented it to the Académie des Sciences in 1746, but it was not otherwise published. Eight of the nebulae were original discoveries. De Chéseaux was the first to formulate OLBERS' paradox, applied to the Milky Way. If the stars extended indefinitely in all direc...

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