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Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

died 262 years ago

21 March 1762

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer and geodesist who catalogued the stars of the Southern Hemisphere and named 14 out of the 88 constellations.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lacaille/