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Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer (born 1725)
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Guillaume Le Gentil
French astronomer (1725–1792)
Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. He wrote on the estimation of the distance from the Earth to the Sun using solar transits, made…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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