- Marie-Jeanne de Lalande
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Marie-Jeanne-Amélie Le Francais de Lalande, née Habray (1760 - 1832), was a French astronomer.
She was the niece of Jerome de Lalande and married astronomer Michel-Jean-Jerome Le Francois de Lalande in 1788.
She calcylated the "Tabres horaires", which was published in Abgrége de navigation (1793).
De Lalande (crater) was named after her.
References
- Londa Schiebinger: The mind has no sex?. Women in the origins of modern science (1991)
Categories:- 1760 births
- 18th-century French people
- French astronomers
- 1832 deaths
- Women astronomers
- French astronomer stubs
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