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Guillaume Le Gentil

1725 - 1792

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Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (French pronunciation: [ɡijom lə ʒɑ̃ti], 11 or 12 September 1725 – 22 October 1792) 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 unsuccessful attempts to observe the 1761 and 1769 transits of Venus from India during an 11-year journey from France, and wrote a popular account of his adventures and misadventures during the journey. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Guillaume Le Gentil is the 307th most popular astronomer (down from 240th in 2019), the 3,222nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,903rd in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 307 out of 644. Before him are Iosif Shklovsky, Christine Kirch, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Philippe van Lansberge, Luigi Carnera, and Charles Dillon Perrine. After him are Agrippa, Benjamin Markarian, Charles Wolf, Hubert Reeves, Guido Bonatti, and Michael H. Hart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 19. Before him are Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, John Newton, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Franz Moritz von Lacy, and Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa. After him are Arthur Guinness, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Joseph Duplessis, and Johann Peter Beaulieu. Among people deceased in 1792, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 29. Before him are Maximilian Hell, Antonio Rosetti, Antoine Louis, John Smeaton, Yazid of Morocco, and Adam Gottlob Moltke. After him are John Burgoyne, George Browne, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, John Paul Jones, Charles Simon Favart, and Davit Guramishvili.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 3,222 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Brocard (1845), Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes (1719), Pierre Victor Auger (1899), Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1724), René Daumal (1908), and Auguste Vaillant (1861). After him are François Marie Daudin (1776), Étienne Mattler (1905), Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861), Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle (1684), Georges Marchais (1920), and Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 33. Before him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Marguerite Laugier (1896), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean Fernel (1497), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), and Hervé Faye (1814). After him are Charles Wolf (1827), Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), and André Patry (1902).

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