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of London. He was offered the post of director of the St. Petersburg observatory, but declined the invitation. In 1751, Loys de Cheseaux travalled to Paris and was presented to the Academy of Sciences. There he died, after a short illness, on 30 November 1751, aged 33.
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in which he also became one of the first to state, in its modern form, what would later be known as
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Traité de la comete qui a paru en decembre 1743 et en janvier, fevrier et mars 1744
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In 1736, Loys de Cheseaux installed an observatory in his father's lands in
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In addition to astronomy, Loys de Cheseaux researched
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Philippe Loys de Chéseaux

Lausanne
Switzerland
Paris
France
Swiss
Astronomy
[ʒɑ̃filiploisdəʃezo]
Swiss
astronomer
Lausanne
Vaud
banneret
Charles-Louis Loys de Cheseaux
Jean-Pierre de Crousaz
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne
C/1743 X1
Olbers' paradox
universe
Dirk Klinkenberg
C/1746 P1
nebulae
French Academy of Sciences
Le Gentil
Guillaume Bigourdan
corresponding member
Göttingen
St. Petersburg
Royal Society

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