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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 calculated 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)

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