Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
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French astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille , formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer and geodesist who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750 to 1754, he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa. Lacaille observed over 10,000 stars using just a half-inch refracting telescope.
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