Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist

Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist

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Publisher Description

This is the first comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. He mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celestial mechanics.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2012
December 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
202
Pages
PUBLISHER
OUP Oxford
SELLER
The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford trading as Oxford University Press
SIZE
11.4
MB

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