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Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), [3] formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations.
Biography. Born at la Grave in Oisans, in the Dauphiné, he left France in 1542 to participate in the siege of Perpignan which was then held by Emperor Charles V of Austria. In 1547, he sailed to Scotland where his intervention ended the siege of St Andrews Castle. In 1548, he returned to Scotland to take away Mary, Queen of Scots from ...
Nicolas Thérèse Benoît Frochot (20 March 1761 - 29 July 1828) was a senior French civil servant and conseiller d'État, as well as the first holder of the office of Prefect of the Seine. Life [ edit ]
Outer Wilds is a 2019 action-adventure video game developed by Mobius Digital and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game follows the player character as they explore a planetary system stuck in a 22-minute time loop that resets after the sun goes supernova and destroys the system. Through repeated attempts they investigate alien ruins to ...
Théodore[ 1] ( Nicolas) Gobley ( French: [ɡɔblɛ]; 11 May 1811, in Paris – 1 September 1876, in Bagnères-de-Luchon, was the first to isolate and ultimately determine the chemical structure of lecithin, the first identified and characterized member of the phospholipids class. He was also a pioneer researcher in the study and analysis of ...
Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (French pronunciation: [nikɔla ɑ̃twan bulɑ̃ʒe]; 11 November 1722, in Paris – 16 September 1759, in Paris) was a French philosopher and man of letters during the Age of Enlightenment.
Lenglet Du Fresnoy's Carte de l'Afrique, 1729. 1708: Traité historique et dogmatique du secret inviolable de la confession, où l’on montre quelle a toûjours été à ce sujet la doctrine, & la discipline de l’Eglise, avec resolution de plusieurs difficultez, qui surviennent tous les jours sur cette matière, Paris, Jean Musier.
Andry was born in Lyon, and spent his early life preparing for the priesthood. [2] His early studies were widespread, however, and he published a book on the usage of the French language in 1692. [3] In his 30s he studied medicine at Reims and Paris, receiving his degree in 1697, and in 1701 he was appointed to the faculty of the Collège de ...