Jean Picard
Jean Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand.He is principally notable for his accurate measure of the size of the Earth, based on a careful survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Bernard Clairvaux, Abt, Heiliger, Picard, Jean, Gillot, Jean, Tiraqueau, Edmond L., Pelays, M.
Published 1623
Published 1623
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