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Categories: 1762 deaths, French Roman Catholic priests, Fellows of the Royal Society, 18th-century French astronomers, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille  Nicolas Louis de Lacaille  Abbe Lacaille  Abbe Nicholas Louis de Lacaille  Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
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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. Wikipedia
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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. Wikipedia
French astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
homo
AWARD RECEIVED
Fellow of the Royal Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
France
Kingdom of France
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk familjebok
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EDUCATED AT
Collège de Lisieux
College of Navarre
EMPLOYER
Paris Observatory
University of Paris
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
GIVEN NAME
Nicolas
Louis
HONORIFIC PREFIX
abbe
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
French
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
French Academy of Sciences
Prussian Academy of Sciences
Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
+2 relations
OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
PLACE OF BIRTH
Rumigny
PLACE OF DEATH
Paris
RELIGION
Catholic Church
RESIDENCE
France
SEX OR GENDER
male
STUDENT
Lavoisier
François Laurent Lamandé
STUDENT OF
Jacques Cassini
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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
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Wikidata Alias
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Nicolas Louis de La Caille

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