• Thumbnail for Nicole-Reine Lepaute
    Nicole-Reine Lepaute (French pronunciation: [nikɔl ʁɛn ləpot]; née Étable de la Brière, 5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788), also erroneously known as Hortense...
    21 KB (2,012 words) - 00:01, 17 March 2024
  • Lepaute may refer to: Jean-André Lepaute (1720-1789), French clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Lepaute (1727-1802), French clockmaker Nicole-Reine Lepaute or Hortense...
    260 bytes (61 words) - 11:56, 30 January 2017
  • American lawyer Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), French astronomer Nicole Miller (born 1952), American fashion designer Nicole Richie (born 1981), American...
    10 KB (1,169 words) - 01:58, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lepaute (crater)
    part of the Moon's near side. It was named after French astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute. To the east is the larger crater Ramsden, within a system of rilles...
    5 KB (356 words) - 05:31, 19 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jean-André Lepaute
    astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who nursed him in his long last illness. His nephew was the clockmaker, mathematician and astronomer Joseph Lepaute Dagelet...
    4 KB (403 words) - 07:08, 28 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Computer (occupation)
    return of Halley's Comet with two colleagues, Joseph Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. Human computers continued plotting the future movements of astronomical...
    23 KB (2,730 words) - 12:52, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comet
    three French mathematicians: Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who predicted the date of the comet's 1759 perihelion to within...
    144 KB (15,291 words) - 03:19, 25 April 2024
  • Guillaume Le Gentil Pierre Charles Le Monnier Urbain Le Verrier Nicole-Reine Lepaute Edmond Modeste Lescarbault Emmanuel Liais Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy...
    6 KB (595 words) - 01:50, 21 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Halley's Comet
    three French mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute. The confirmation of the comet's return was the first time anything...
    99 KB (9,799 words) - 01:36, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Women in computing
    century, women have developed scientific computations, including Nicole-Reine Lepaute's prediction of Halley's Comet, and Maria Mitchell's computation of...
    97 KB (10,867 words) - 07:54, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of women astronomers
    Leavitt (1868–1921), American astronomer who observed variable stars Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), French astronomer and mathematician Isabel Martin Lewis...
    21 KB (2,306 words) - 16:46, 29 April 2024
  • observation of the Arago spot, unrecognized at this time. January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (died 1788) January 31 – Petronella Johanna de...
    2 KB (217 words) - 19:23, 10 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Jérôme Lalande
    Comet whose return in that year he had helped Alexis Clairaut and Nicole-Reine Lepaute to calculate. In 1762 Delisle resigned the chair of astronomy in...
    13 KB (1,338 words) - 23:43, 27 December 2023
  • clockmakers Jean-André and Jean-Baptiste Lepaute, who held the brevet horlogers du Roi. Through his aunt, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, wife of Jean-André, he discovered...
    4 KB (499 words) - 12:41, 3 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of women in science
    known laboratory for anatomical research. 1757: French astronomer Nicole-Reine Lepaute worked with mathematicians Alexis Clairaut and Joseph Lalande to...
    193 KB (19,007 words) - 00:38, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Crab Nebula
    Jupiter, which Clairaut and his two colleagues Jérôme Lalande and Nicole-Reine Lepaute carried out more precisely than Halley, finding that the comet should...
    51 KB (5,771 words) - 17:46, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Observational history of comets
    three French mathematicians: Alexis Clairaut, Joseph Lalande, and Nicole-Reine Lepaute, who predicted the date of the comet's 1759 perihelion to within...
    43 KB (5,769 words) - 08:53, 28 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1788
    December 6 – Jonathan Shipley, English bishop, politician (b. 1714) Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (b. 1723) December 14 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
    19 KB (2,214 words) - 08:23, 16 April 2024
  • 17 – John Brown, Scottish-born physician (born 1735) December 6 - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (born 1723) Lucia Galeazzi Galvani, Italian scientist...
    6 KB (571 words) - 19:09, 1 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Boötes
    perform detailed astronometric measurements. Lalande worked with Nicole-Reine Lepaute and others to predict the 1758 return of Halley's Comet. Quadrans...
    73 KB (8,385 words) - 12:58, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hydrangea
    and mathematician Nicole-Reine Hortense Lepaute. Philibert Commerson attempted to name the flower Lepautia or Peautia after Lepaute. However, the flower's...
    25 KB (2,351 words) - 06:35, 21 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1723
    making it the third incorporated town in the province. January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788) January 11 – Prithvi...
    14 KB (1,712 words) - 01:40, 15 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexis Clairaut
    Théorie de la lune; the team made up of Clairaut, Jérome Lalande and Nicole Reine Lepaute successfully computed the date of the 1759 return of Halley's comet...
    17 KB (2,005 words) - 02:27, 20 February 2024
  • Louis Antoine de Gontaut, Marshal of France (born 1700) 6 December - Nicole-Reine Lepaute, astronomer (born 1723) 8 December - Pierre André de Suffren de Saint...
    4 KB (360 words) - 00:17, 25 June 2022
  • Thumbnail for 1759 in science
    team of three mathematicians, Alexis Clairaut, Jérome Lalande and Nicole Reine Lepaute, have – for the first time – predicted the date. Caspar Friedrich...
    6 KB (539 words) - 14:14, 15 September 2023
  • Marie Paulze Lavoisier (1758–1836), French chemist and illustrator Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1792), French astronomer Elisabeth Christina von Linné (1743–1782)...
    40 KB (3,924 words) - 01:13, 7 March 2024
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt John Lee (astronomer) Pierre Charles Lemonnier Nicole-Reine Lepaute Jean Antoine Letronne Tullio Levi-Civita Anders Johan Lexell Aloysius...
    21 KB (1,900 words) - 19:40, 5 March 2024
  • heliometer at the Pic du Midi Observatory MPC · 7718 7720 Lepaute 4559 P-L Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723–1788), a French astronomer and mathematician, who...
    200 KB (445 words) - 18:44, 8 April 2024
  • Ali, Indian general, Sultan of Mysore (d. 1782) 1723 January 5 – Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer, mathematician (d. 1788) January 11 – Prithvi...
    1 KB (18,169 words) - 00:18, 12 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1780s
    December 6 – Jonathan Shipley, English bishop, politician (b. 1714) Nicole-Reine Lepaute, French astronomer (b. 1723) December 14 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
    3 KB (25,344 words) - 23:57, 4 April 2024