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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was an astronomer who had the great honor of naming 15 of the 88 constellations in the sky. He spent 1750-1754 studying the stars of the southern hemisphere from the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost part of Africa.
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The success of this difficult operation, which occupied two years, and achieved the correction of the anomalous result published by J. Cassini in 1718, was mainly due to Lacaille's industry and skill.
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Nicholas Louis de la Caille (Lacaille) was born on March 15, 1713 in Rumigny, a village of now some 400 inhabitants in the Ardennes, France, near Rozoy-en-Thièrache, 12 km (7.5 miles) from Mon Idée on today's border to Belgium, at the junction of routes D877 ... Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille images, NGC/IC observers page...
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Nicholas Louis de la Caille (1713-1762) compiled a catalog of 3 times 14 .... Nicholas Louis de Lacaille. Sur les étoiles nébuleuses du Ciel Austral [On the ...
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(nēkôlä´ lwē d läkä´y ) , 1713—62, French astronomer. As a result of his success in making meridional measurements in France under the patronage of the duke of Bourbon he was elected to the French Academy. ... Yahoo! Education > Reference > Encyclopedia > Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de. Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de. Information about Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... LACAC; LACACC; LACAD; LACADA; Lacaille; Lacaille 8760; Lacaille 9352; Lacaille's constellations; Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de; Lacalle,
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