Mathematician:Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

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Mathematician

French astronomer who named $14$ out of the $88$ constellations.

Observed over $10 \, 000$ stars using just a half-inch refractor.

Constructing astronomical ephemerides and mathematical tables.

Calculated a table of eclipses for $1800$ years.

Determined that Earth is flatter at the South Pole than at the North Pole


Nationality

French


History

  • Born: 15 March 1713 in Rumigny-en-Thiérache, France
  • 1750 -- 1754: Studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present day South Africa
  • Died: 21 March 1762 in Paris, France


Publications

  • 1741: Leçons élémentaires de Mathématiques
  • 1743: Leçons élémentaires de Mécanique
  • 1746: Leçons élémentaires d'Astronomie
  • 1750: Leçons élémentaires d'Optique
  • 1755: Ephémérides
  • 1756: Table des Ascensions Droites et des Declinaisons Apparentes des Etoiles australes renfermées dans le tropique du Capricorne ...
  • 1757: Astronomiae Fundamenta Novissimus
  • 1758: Tabulae Solares
  • 1763: Coelum Australe Stelliferum
  • 1776: Journal historique de voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance par feu M l'abbé de La Caille ... (published posthumously)
  • 1779: Leçons élémentaires d'Astronomie ($4$th ed.) (augmented by Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande)


Also known as

Sometimes reported as de la Caille.


Sources