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Jean Picard was a French priest, astronomer and pioneer in geodesy, born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Collège royal Henri le Grand. He is best known for accurately measuring the size of the Earth, through a survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian.
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FranceCategory
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1620 to 1682 · aged 61
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