See also:

• NICOLAS
• NICOLAS, SIR NICHOLAS HARRIS (1799–1848)

NICOLAS See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

LOUIS DE See also:

• NICOLAS LOUIS DE LACAILLE (1713-1762)

LACAILLE (1713-1762)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Rumigny, in the See also:

• ARDENNES

Ardennes, on the 15th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1713 . See also:

• LEFT

Left destitute by the See also:

• DEATH

death of his See also:

• FATHER

father, who held a See also:

• POST

post in the See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household of the duchess of See also:

• VENDOME
• VENDOME, LOUIS JOSEPH

Vendome, his theological studies at the See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College de See also:

• LISIEUX

Lisieux in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris were prosecuted at the expense of the See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

• BOURBON
• BOURBON, CHARLES, DUKE OF (149o-1527)

Bourbon . After he had taken See also:

• DEACON (Gr. S&& ovos, minister, servant)

deacon's orders, however, he devoted himself exclusively to See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, and, through the patronage of J . See also:

• CASSINI

Cassini, obtained employment, first in See also:

• SURVEYING

surveying the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast from See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes to See also:

• BAYONNE

Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the See also:

• MERIDIAN
• MERIDIAN (from the Lat. meridianus, pertaining to the south or mid-day)

meridian . The success of this difficult operation, which occupied two years, and achieved the correction of the anomalous result published by J . Cassini in 1718, was mainly due to See also:

• LACAILLE, NICOLAS LOUIS DE (1713-1762)

Lacaille's See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and skill . He was rewarded by See also:

• ADMISSION

admission to the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy and the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of mathematical See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor in See also:

• MAZARIN, JULES (1602-1661)

Mazarin college, where he worked in a small See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory fitted for his use . His See also:

• DESIRE

desire to observe the See also:

• SOUTHERN

southern heavens led him to propose, in 1750, an astronomical expedition to the Cape of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good See also:

• HOPE, ANTHONY
• HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770-1831)

Hope, which was officially sanctioned, and fortunately executed . Among its results were determinations of the lunar and of the See also:

• SOLAR, SOLLER (Lat. solarium, Fr.• galetas, Ital. solaio)

solar See also:

• PARALLAX (Gr. aapa?X6, alternately)

parallax (See also:

• MARS
• MARS (MAYORS, MARMAR, MARSPITER GA MASPITER)
• MARS, MLLE [ANNE FRANCOISE HYPPOLYTE BOUTET] (1779-1847)

Mars serving as an intermediary), the first measurement of a See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South See also:

• AFRICAN

African arc of the meridian, and the observation of so,000 southern stars . On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an See also:

• OBJECT

object of public See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention; he withdrew to Mazarin college, and there died, on the 21st of March 1762, of an attack of See also:

• GOUT

gout aggravated by unremitting toil . See also:

• LALANDE, JOSEPH JEROME LEFRANCAIS DE (1732-1807)

Lalande said of him that, during a comparatively See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short See also:

• LIFE

life, he had made more observations and calculations than all the astronomers of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time put together . The quality of his See also:

• WORK

work rivalled its quantity, while the disinterestedness and rectitude of his moral See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character earned him universal respect .

His See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

• WORKS

works are: Astronomiae Fundamenta (1757), containing a See also:

• STANDARD
• STANDARD, BATTLE OF THE

standard See also:

• CATALOGUE (a Fr. adaptation of the Gr. KaraXoyos, a register, from Karalyety, to enrol or pick out)

catalogue of 398 stars, re-edited by F . See also:

• BAILY, EDWARD HODGES (1788-1867)
• BAILY, FRANCIS (1774-1844)
• BAILY, WILLIAM HELLIER (1819-1888)

Baily (See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs See also:

• ROY, WILLIAM (1726-1790)

Roy . Astr . Society, v . 93) ; Tabulae Solares (1758) ; Coelum australe stelliferum (1763) (edited by J . D . Maraldi), giving See also:

• ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone-observations of 1o,000 stars, and describing fourteen new constellations; " Observations sur 515 etoiles du Zodiaque " (published in t. vi. of his Ephemerides, 1763) ; Lecons elementaires de Mathe'matiques (1741), frequently reprinted; See also:

• DITTO (from the Lat. dictum, something said, Ital. detto, aforesaid)

ditto de Mecanique (1743), &c.; ditto d'Asironomie (1746), 4th edition augmented by Lalande (1779) ; ditto d'Optique (1750), &c . Calculations by him of eclipses for eighteen See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred years were inserted in L'See also:

• ART

Art de verifier See also:

• LES

les See also:

• DATES

dates (175c); he communicated to the Academy in 1755 a classed catalogue of See also:

• FORTY

forty-two southern nebulae, and gave in t. ii. of his Ephemerides (1755) See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical rules for the employment of the lunar method of longitudes, proposing in his additions to See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• BOUGUER, PIERRE (1698-1758)

Bouguer's Traite de See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

Navigation (1760) the See also:

• MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model of a nautical See also:

• ALMANAC

almanac . See G. de Fouchy, "Eloge de Lacaille," Hist. de l'Acad. See also:

• DES

des Sciences, p . 197 (1762); G . Brotier, See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

Preface to Lacaille's Coelum australe; See also:

• CLAUDE, JEAN (1619-1687)

Claude Carlier, Discours historique, prefixed to Lacaille's See also:

• JOURNAL
• JOURNAL (through Fr. from late Lat. diurnalis, daily)

Journal historique du voyage fait an Cap (1763); J . J .

Lalande, Connoissance des temps, p . 185 (1767) ; Bibl. astr. pp . 422, 456, 461, 482; J . Delainbre, Hist. de l'astr. an X VIII' sibcle, pp . 457-542 ; J . S . See also:

• BAILLY, JEAN SYLVAIN (1736-1793)

Bailly, Hist. de l'astr. moderne, tomes ii., iii., passim; J . C . See also:

• POGGENDORFF, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1796-1877)

Poggendorff, Biog . Lit . Handworterbuch; R . See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, Hist. of See also:

• PHYSICAL

Physical See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

Astronomy, pp .

486, &c.; R . See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomie . A catalogue of 9766 stars, reduced from Lacaille's observations by T . See also:

• HENDERSON
• HENDERSON, ALEXANDER (1583-1646)
• HENDERSON, EBENEZER (1784-1858)
• HENDERSON, GEORGE FRANCIS ROBERT (1854-1903)
• HENDERSON, JOHN (1747-1785)

Henderson, under the supervision of F . Baily, was published in See also:

• LONDON

London in 1847 .