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1744, Aug 161804, Sep 20
a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep sky objects and comets. He participated in the Anglo-French Survey (1784–1790) to measure by trigonometry the precise distance between the Paris Observatory and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
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