TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glass, Ian S.
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2013//
TI  - Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, astronomer and geodesist
ET  - 1. ed.
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - France
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - History
KW  - Geodesy
AB  - 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.--
SN  - 019966840X
LA  - English
N1  - I. S. Glass
ID  - 725319984
ER  -