Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754 he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa, observing over 10,000 stars using a refracting telescope.
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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. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa.
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15 March 1713
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21 March 1762
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