Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist
Ian Stewart (Astronomer, South African Astronomical Observatory and Adjunct Professor, James Cook University) Glass
Oxford University Press, 2012
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780199668403
- ISBN-10
- 019966840X
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-12-13
- Pages
- 202
- Dimensions
- 170x240x15
- Weight
- 498