Lacaille

Lacaille 9352 - Type=M2, Magnitude=7.4, Distance=10.73 ly

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The celestial globe is based on the astronomical observations of Flamsteed and Lacaille.

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The celestial globe is based on the astronomical observations of Flamsteed and Lacaille.

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Lacaille 9352 is yet another red dwarf 10.74 light years away.

The Speculist: Steller Cartography 2006

Lacaille 9352 is yet another red dwarf 10.74 light years away.

The Speculist: January 2006 Archives 2006

Lacaille had calculated for his treatise, "L'art de vérifier les dates", the eclipses of the first nineteen centuries of the Christian era; Pingré in a second edition took up his calculations and extended them over ten centuries before Christ.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

A great contemporary and fellow-countryman of Lacaille was Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1717-1783), who, although not primarily an astronomer, did so much with his mathematical calculations to aid that science that his name is closely connected with its progress during the eighteenth century.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

With Lacaille he studied mathematics and astronomy; with Jussieu, botany; and, finally, chemistry under Rouelle.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences 1904

Lacaille; the former observing at Berlin, the latter at the Cape of Good

Astronomy for Amateurs Camille Flammarion 1883

Lacaille brought back with him from the Cape a list of forty-two -- the first-fruits of observation in

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874