@Book{725319984,
author="Glass, Ian S.",
title="Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, astronomer and geodesist",
year="2013",
edition="1. ed.",
publisher="Oxford Univ. Press",
address="Oxford",
keywords="Astronomers; France; Astronomy; History; Geodesy",
contents="Early lifeThe Cape -- The shape of the earth -- Notes about the Cape -- Later years -- Paradox resolved.",
abstract="This is a comprehensive biography of one of the greatest and most careful observational astronomers of all time. Nicolas-Louis De La Caille mapped the southern sky and named many of the constellations. In addition, he contributed to geodesy, navigation, and celestial mechanics.--",
note="I. S. Glass",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="019966840X",
language="English"
}