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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa. Lacaille observed over 10,000 stars using a refracting telescope.
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science · French astronomer and geodesist (1713–1762) · astronomer · mathematician · writer · teacher · geodesist · also Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de La Caille, Louis de la Caille, Lacaille
Born 15 March 1713 · Died 21 March 1762 · Q202703
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Thomas Maclear, who was Astronomer Royal at the Cape, repeated the measurements over a longer baseline (Maclear's arc measurement) and ultimately confirmed Everest's conjecture
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Died 1762-03-21.
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1760· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1760).
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1735· 1 entry
Studied at Collège de Navarre (1732–1735).
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1732· 2 entries
Studied at Collège de Lisieux (1729–1732).
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Career landmark: Catholic deacon (1732).
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1713· 1 entry
Born 1713-03-15.
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