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Jean Sylvain Bailly portrait

author: Jean-Paul Dumontier/Novapix

reference: h-per02-00001

Image Size 300 DPI: 17 * 25 cm

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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18TH CENTURY - 19TH CENTURY - ASTRONOMER - ASTRONOMY - BAILLY JEAN SYLVAIN - ENGRAVING - HISTORY - ILLUSTRATION - MAN - PORTRAIT -