Jérôme Lalande

''Jérôme de La Lande'' by [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], c. 1769 Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (; 11 July 1732 – 4April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. He is known for having estimated a precise value of the astronomical unit (the distance from the Earth to the Sun) using measurements of the transit of Venus in 1769. Provided by Wikipedia
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    Dictionnaire des athées anciens et modernes
    by MarÉchal , Sylvain
    Published 1833
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