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    Dom Alexandre Guy Pingré (11 September 1711 – 1 May 1796) was a French canon regular, astronomer and naval geographer. Pingré was born in Paris but was...
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  • Pingré may refer to: Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711–1796), French astronomer and naval geographer 12719 Pingré, main belt asteroid with an orbital period of...
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    that it was due to hunting by humans instead. The French astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré did not encounter any solitaires when he visited Rodrigues to observe...
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  • canon at St. Genevieve in 1678. Astronomer and naval geographer, Alexandre Guy Pingré was made librarian of St. Geneviève and built an observatory at the...
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    mathematician Gaspard Monge, the astronomer and naval geographer Alexandre Guy Pingré, and the poet, actor and playwright Fabre d'Églantine, who invented...
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  • Frédéric Petit Pierre Petit (engineer) Jean Picard Louise du Pierry Alexandre Guy Pingré Christian Pollas Jean-Louis Pons Philippe Gustave le Doulcet, Comte...
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    Scotland, in 1687, were sons of the French congregation. The astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré was librarian of Sainte-Geneviève. In 1744, King Louis XV decided...
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  • engaged in various naval operations including taking the astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré to observe the 1761 transit of Venus in the Indian Ocean. In January...
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    Great Comet of 1556 and the Great comet of 1264 are the same comet. Alexandre Guy Pingré, who in his Cométographie (1783) calls the Great comet of 1264 a...
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  • – Anna Barbara Reinhart, Swiss mathematician (born 1730) May 1 – Alexandre Guy Pingré, French astronomer and naval geographer (born 1711 December 11 –...
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