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Philippe de La Hire was a French painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect. According to Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle he was an "academy unto himself".
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Adrien Auzout [pronounced in French somewhat like o-zoo] was a French astronomer.
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Peter Crüger or Peter Krüger was a mathematician, astronomer, polymath, and teacher of Johannes Hevelius.
Nathanael Matthaeus von Wolf, Nathanael Matthäus von Wolf, Polish: Nataniel Mateusz Wolf was a German botanist, physician, and astronomer.
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