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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:astronomy
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gptkbp:alma_mater
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gptkb:University_of_Paris
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:Royal_Society
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gptkbp:award
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gptkb:Copley_Medal
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gptkbp:awards
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Royal Society Fellow
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gptkbp:birth_date
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1713-02-15
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gptkbp:birth_place
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gptkb:Beauvais,_France
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gptkbp:burial_place
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gptkb:Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:Louis_de_Lacaille
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gptkbp:contribution
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Lacaille's catalog of stars
improved star mapping
cataloging stars
southern hemisphere astronomy
Lacaille's observations of the southern sky
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gptkbp:death_date
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1762-03-21
1762-03-16
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gptkbp:death_place
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gptkb:Paris,_France
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gptkbp:ethnicity
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gptkb:French
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gptkbp:famous_for
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Lacaille's constellation names
southern star catalog
Lacaille's southern constellations
Lacaille's constellations
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gptkbp:fellowship
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gptkb:Académie_des_Sciences
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:astronomy
astrometry
geodesy
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gptkbp:field_of_study
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astrometry
stellar astronomy
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
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gptkbp:influence
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modern astronomy
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gptkbp:influence_on
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celestial cartography
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:William_Herschel
gptkb:John_Herschel
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:Isaac_Newton
gptkb:Jean_Picard
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gptkbp:inspired
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future astronomers
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gptkbp:invention
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gptkb:Lacaille's_telescope
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gptkbp:known_for
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gptkb:Lacaille's_stars
mapping southern constellations
mapping southern skies
mapping southern stars
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:French
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gptkbp:legacy
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Lacaille's star catalogues
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:French
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gptkbp:notable_achievement
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first to catalog southern stars
mapped the Milky Way
established the first accurate star catalog for the southern hemisphere
created the constellation Antlia
created the constellation Apus
created the constellation Ara
created the constellation Carina
created the constellation Centaurus
created the constellation Chamaeleon
created the constellation Circinus
created the constellation Crux
created the constellation Dorado
created the constellation Fornax
created the constellation Indus
created the constellation Mensa
created the constellation Musca
created the constellation Octans
created the constellation Pictor
created the constellation Pyxis
created the constellation Reticulum
created the constellation Scorpius.
created the constellation Telescopium
created the constellation Vela
identified over 10,000 stars
developed a method for measuring the distance to stars
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gptkbp:notable_event
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expedition to the Cape
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gptkbp:notable_galaxies
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gptkb:Cape_of_Good_Hope
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gptkbp:notable_person
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gptkb:Carl_Sagan
gptkb:Max_Planck
gptkb:Hermann_von_Helmholtz
gptkb:Niels_Bohr
gptkb:Charles_Messier
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Werner_Heisenberg
gptkb:Jules_Janssen
gptkb:Albert_Einstein
gptkb:Henri_Becquerel
gptkb:Stephen_Hawking
gptkb:Édouard_Roche
gptkb:Henri_Poincaré
gptkb:Pierre-Simon_Laplace
gptkb:William_Herschel
gptkb:Erwin_Schrödinger
gptkb:Neil_de_Grasse_Tyson
Jean-Baptiste Chappe d' Auteroche
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:Coelum_Australe_Stelliferum
gptkb:Catalogus_Stellarum_Australium
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:Scientist
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gptkbp:research
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triangulation
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gptkbp:research_focus
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southern hemisphere stars
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Marie-Anne_de_Lacaille
Marie de Lacaille
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gptkbp:title
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Abbé
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gptkbp:work_location
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gptkb:Cape_of_Good_Hope
gptkb:South_Africa
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Argo
gptkb:sculpture
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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