Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette

Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette was a 17th century French astronomer. He was a contemporary and friend of Galileo and Peiresc. With Peiresc he observed the moons of Jupiter in November 1610 and earlier that year he had been the second person after Peiresc to see the Orion Nebula.

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* Mario Biagioli, [http://books.google.com/books?id=k4Sh22PGym0C&pg=RA1-PA278&lpg=RA1-PA278&dq=%22Joseph+Gaultier+de+la+Vallette%22&source=web&ots=NazPTUDAvk&sig=ANxGaXQBLXNLiOIPyF-dA4wAtD4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result "Galileo's Instruments of Credit"] , 2006
* Mario Biagioli, [http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FSIC%2FSIC14_S1%2FS0269889701000370a.pdf&code=542a3583f378c605a69d566e33aeaf5e Replication or Monopoly? : The Economies of Invention and Discovery in Galileo's Observations of 1610]
*Jürgen Renn, [http://books.google.com/books?id=UR07AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA319&lpg=PA319&dq=%22Joseph+Gaultier+de+la+Vallette%22&source=web&ots=xffsAfKm8Z&sig=5zk0B0dPZanCbckN_SUWTLx1YYU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result "Galileo in context"] , 2002

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*fr icon Pierre Humbert, "Joseph Gaultier de la Vallette, astronome provencal (1564-1647)." "Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications" I (1948) 316.