Ian Stewart Glass's Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist, published by Oxford University Press in 2013, is the most comprehensive modern biography of Lacaille, written by an astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory with particular emphasis on Lacaille's 1751 to 1753 stay at the Cape of Good Hope, his roughly ten-thousand-star southern survey, and the fourteen constellations he named there. Glass's own professional astronomical background at the very institution descended from Lacaille's observing site gives the book unusual direct technical and institutional grounding alongside standard university press peer review. It is the standard reference specifically on Lacaille's life and southern-sky survey work.
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Ian Stewart Glass's Nicolas-Louis De La Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist, Oxford University Press, 2013, the top tier reflecting the most comprehensive modern biography, written by an astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory descended from Lacaille's own observing site, giving unusual direct technical and institutional grounding alongside standard university press peer review. It is the standard reference specifically on Lacaille's life and southern sky survey work. NotesBy an astronomer at the South African Astronomical Observatory. The most comprehensive modern biography of Lacaille, with particular emphasis on his 1751 to 1753 stay at the Cape of Good Hope, his nearly ten-thousand-star southern survey, and the fourteen constellations he named there.
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AuthorIan Stewart Glass
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication Year2013
URLhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/nicolas-louis-de-la-caille-astronomer-and-geodesist-9780199668403
Source Typeacademic biography
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