Mouton, Gabriel (1618-94)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3881. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Cleric, born in Lyon, France, observed the apparent diameter of the Sun and Moon as a measurement of their changing distance and an aid to understanding their orbits, published Observationes Diametrorum Solis et Lunae Apparentium (1670), studied interpolation, produced tables of logarithmic sines and cosines, and proposed the metric system, with a standard linear measurement based on the circumfe...

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