Exhibit 2001 Lacaille
Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de, 1713-1762.
Coelum australe stelliferum, seu, Observationes ad construendum stellarum australium catalogum institutae : in Africa ad Caput Bonae-Spei / a Nicolao-Ludovico de La Caille ... .
Parisiis : Sumptibus Hipp. Lud. Guerin & Lud. Fr. Delatour ... , 1763.
French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1713-1762) is best known for his four-year trip to South Africa, 1750-1753, when he made some of the first accurate mappings of the southern sky. He charted fourteen new constellations, naming them after such scientific instruments as the telescope and microscope.
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