Jérôme Lalande
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Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer.
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Notable works
His published include:
- Traité d'astronomie (2 vols., 1764 enlarged. edition, 4 vols., 1771–1781; 3rd ed., 3 vols., 1792)
- Histoire céleste française (1801), giving the places of 47,390 stars
- Bibliographie astronomique (1803), with a history of astronomy from 1780 to 1802
- Astronomie des dames (1785)
- Abrégé de navigation (1793)
- Voyage d'un françois en Italie (1769), a valuable record of his travel in 1765–1766.
- Journal d'un voyage en Angleterre (1763)
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