# Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille

> He named 14 constellations - more than any other single astronomer - and catalogued over 10,000 stars from the southern tip of Africa with a handheld refractor.

*French astronomer*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1713-03-15
- **Died:** 1762-03-21
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was a French astronomer and geodesist born 15 March 1713. From 1750 to 1754, he traveled to the Cape of Good Hope in present-day South Africa to study the southern sky, a hemisphere largely unmapped by European science. Using a refracting telescope, he observed over 10,000 stars and went on to name 14 of the 88 constellations recognized today. He died 21 March 1762, six days after his forty-ninth birthday.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 58.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 15.0 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 24.1 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.6 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100

## Topics
#Scientists, #Scientist, #Astronomy, #Mathematics, #Literature, #Early Modern Era

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- [Nikola Lui de Lakayl](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Lui_de_Lakayl)

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