%0 Book
%T Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, astronomer and geodesist
%A Glass, Ian S.
%D 2013
%7 1. ed.
%I Oxford Univ. Press
%C Oxford
%@ 019966840X
%G English
%F 725319984
%O I. S. Glass
%O Includes bibliographical references and index
%X 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.--
%L 520.92 B
%K Astronomers
%K France
%K Astronomy
%K History
%K Geodesy
%9 Text
%9 Biografie