Joseph Lepaute Dagelet
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French astronomer and explorer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Lepaute Dagelet was a French astronomer, clockmaker and mathematician who accompanied Lapérouse on his scientific circumnavigation, in the course of which he perished in the final shipwreck of the expedition. Dagelet's astronomical sightings gave precision to the maps posthumously published in the official Atlas du Voyage de la Perouse .
