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Born September 19, 1749 • Amiens • France
Died August 19, 1822 (aged 72) • Paris • France

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Jérôme Lalande, etching by Christian Fritzsch, 1773.
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Jacques Cassini
French astronomer
Alexis Bouvard
French astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
al-Battānī
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
Pierre Janssen, detail from an engraving
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
André-Louis Danjon
French astronomer
Jean Picard
French astronomer
Bernard Lyot
French astronomer
Jean Richer
French astronomer
César-François Cassini de Thury
French surveyor
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
Charles Messier
French astronomer
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French humanist

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