Nicolas Louis de Lacaille

1713–1762

French astronomer

astronomer · writer · teacher

Born in Rumigny

Contemporaries

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• George Washington (1732–1799)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778)
• Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
• Adam Smith (1723–1790)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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