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Born April 23, 1734 • France
Died October 17, 1809 (aged 75) • France
Subjects Of Study fluid flow • measurement
Antoine de Chézy
French engineer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Pierre Bouguer
French scientist
Jean Picard
French astronomer
Jean Richer
French astronomer
Henri-Émile Bazin
French engineer
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
Saint-Clément Aqueduct
Henri Pitot
French engineer and inventor
Henri-Philibert-Gaspard Darcy
French engineer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
Guillaume Amontons
French physicist
Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
Bernard Forest de Belidor
French engineer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher