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    Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ filip lois də ʃezo]; 4 May 1718 – 30 November 1751) was a Swiss astronomer. Loys de Cheseaux...
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    designation is C/1743 X1, and which is also known as Comet de Chéseaux or Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux, was a spectacular comet that was observed during 1743...
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  • Cheseaux may refer to: Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne is a municipality in Switzerland Cheseaux-Noréaz is a municipality in Switzerland Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux...
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    cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual...
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  • P. Darche Jean-Philippe Daurelle, French fencer Jean Philippe de Bela French-Basque military figure and writer Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux (1718–1751)...
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    Aristotle's division between the two obsolete. Edmund Halley (1720) and Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux (1744) noted independently that the assumption of an infinite...
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    time and included in the Messier catalogue: M71, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in the 1740s; M80, discovered by Messier about two weeks earlier...
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    translation of Cheseaux's letter appears on pp. 105–106. Available at: SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System See also: Philippe Loys de Chéseaux (May 4, 1718...
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    century, with Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux compiling a list of 20 (including eight not previously known) in 1746. From 1751 to 1753, Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille...
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  • Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (born 1661) November 30 – Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux, Swiss mathematician and astronomer (born 1718) "Historic Tours"...
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