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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer and cartographer (died 1768)

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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

French astronomer and cartographer (1688–1768)

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

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