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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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    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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    When he visited Rodrigues to observe the 1761 transit of Venus, Alexandre Guy Pingré encountered no solitaires, although he had been assured that they...
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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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    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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    noblewoman, morganatic wife of Charles of Saxony (b. 1742) May 1 – Alexandre Guy Pingré, Catholic priest and scientist (b. 1711) May 2 – Juan García Ruiz...
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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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    seismologist and astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711–1796) – French priest astronomer and naval geographer; the crater Pingré on the Moon is named after...
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  • François de Charette, soldier and politician (born 1763) 1 May - Alexandre Guy Pingré, astronomer and naval geographer (born 1711) 30 July - Nicolas de...
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    Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1780) September 11 – Alexandre Guy Pingré, Catholic priest and scientist (d. 1796) September 14 – Michele Foschini...
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  • Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1780) September 11 – Alexandre Guy Pingré, Catholic priest and scientist (d. 1796) September 14 – Michele Foschini...
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    perhaps due to their aggressive nature. In 1763, the French astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré noted the absence of this and other birds on Rodrigues by the time...
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    manuscript copy made by the renegade French priest and scientist Alexandre Guy Pingré. The manuscript, now conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France...
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    herons, especially the juveniles. In 1763, the French astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré noted the absence of the Rodrigues night heron and other birds by...
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  • day. Le Gentil had also missed the 1761 transit through bad luck. Alexandre Guy Pingré in Haiti William Wales and Joseph Dymond at Prince of Wales Fort...
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  • a wealth of data on natural sciences. JPL · 12718 12719 Pingré 1991 LP2 Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711–1796), a French astronomer, was sent by the king to...
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  • Rozier (1756–1785) WGPSN Pingré 58°38′S 73°57′W / 58.64°S 73.95°W / -58.64; -73.95 (Pingré) 88.43 1961 Alexandre Guy Pingré (1711–1796) WGPSN Pirquet...
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    college run at the abbey and later member of the community was Dom Alexandre Guy Pingré, C.R.S.A. (died 1796). He made significant contributions to astronomy...
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    parallaxis solis. Exercitatio Dadei Ruffi (anagram for Audiffredi). Alexandre Guy Pingré's subsequent discounting of Audifreddi's observations led to a scientific...
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    Anders Johan Lexell, Leonhard Euler, Pingré, Adrien-Marie Legendre and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. Lexell, Asclepi, Pingré and Bessel were especially successful...
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    The Rodrigues starling was extinct by the time French scientist Alexandre Guy Pingré visited Rodrigues during the French 1761 Transit of Venus expedition...
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    King's cabinet). In the years 1720, Louis Pingré is Lord of Coullemelle. He is followed by Pantaleon Pingré Lord of Fricamps and his widow Marie Catherine...
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