biography
| name: |
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de
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pronunciation:
[lakiy]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1713–62)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Rumigny, NE France. From 1750 to 1754 he led an expedition to the Cape of Good Hope, where he was the first to measure the arc of the meridian in South Africa, compiled a catalogue of nearly 10 000 S stars, Coelum Australe Stelliferum (1763, Star Catalogue of the Southern Sky), and introduced 14 new S constellations. |
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