Richer, Jean (1630-96)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3957.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3957. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in France, became an `astronomer' of the Académie Royal des Sciences. Carried out missions for the Académie, measuring the heights of the tides at La Rochelle at the equinoxes, and on a trip to Canada tested two clocks made by HUYGENS (they stopped, to Huygens' chagrin). In 1671 he went to Cayenne, French Guyana, as part of a campaign to measure the parallax of Mars and to examine the period...

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