Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc portrait

by: Jean-Paul Dumontier/Novapix
Reference: h-per16-00001
Date: 2007-05-09

Nicolas Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580 - 1637) was a French astronomer and savant. He discovered the Orion Nebula in 1610 and drew up the first lunar map in 1636. Recolored engraving, 1875.

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