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Laurent Cassegrain

1629 - 1693

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Laurent Cassegrain (French: [loʁɑ̃ kasgʁɛ̃]; c. 1629 – 1 September 1693) was a Catholic priest who is notable as the probable inventor of the Cassegrain reflector, a folded two-mirror reflecting telescope design. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laurent Cassegrain is the 288th most popular astronomer (down from 253rd in 2019), the 3,092nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Laurent Cassegrain ranks 288 out of 644. Before him are Heber Doust Curtis, Raymond Smith Dugan, Harold Spencer Jones, James W. Christy, Jean Fernel, and Richard Martin West. After him are Giorgio Abetti, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Sylvain Arend, Richard Christopher Carrington, Hervé Faye, and Grigory Neujmin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Laurent Cassegrain ranks 16. Before him are Narai, William VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Cornelis Tromp, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria, and Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg. After him are Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Symeon of Polotsk, Niels Juel, and Agnes Block. Among people deceased in 1693, Laurent Cassegrain ranks 15. Before him are John de Britto, Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Elisabeth Hevelius, Johann Caspar Kerll, John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and Maria van Oosterwijck. After him are Flavio Chigi, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Claudio Coello, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, and Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Laurent Cassegrain ranks 3,092 out of 6,770. Before him are Aemilia Hilaria (300), William of Conches (1080), Robert Garnier (1534), Pierre Wantzel (1814), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), and Rudolph, Duke of Lorraine (1320). After him are Othon Friesz (1879), Louise Julie de Mailly-Nesle (1710), Lucien Tesnière (1893), André Caplet (1878), Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), and Georges Lautner (1926).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Laurent Cassegrain ranks 31. Before him are Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Marguerite Laugier (1896), André-Louis Danjon (1890), and Jean Fernel (1497). After him are Hervé Faye (1814), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Charles Wolf (1827), Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918).

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