Jean Sylvain Bailly portrait

by: Jean-Paul Dumontier/Novapix
Reference: h-per02-00001
Date: 2007-05-09

Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736 - guillotined 1793), was an astronomer and member of the French Academy of Sciences, and also politician. He calculated an orbit for Halley's comet when it appeared in 1759. Recolored engraving.

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