Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)

Nicole-Reine Lepaute.

Nicole-Reine Lepaute (née Étable; also known as Hartense Lepaute or Hortense Lepaute), (5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788) was a French astronomer and mathematician.

She predicted the return of Halley's Comet, calculated the timing of a solar eclipse, and constructed a group of catalogs for the stars.

She was a member of the Scientific Academy of Béziers.

Fiction cross-reference

• Crimes against mathematical constants

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Mathematician (nonfiction)

External links:

• Nicole-Reine Lepaute @ Wikipedia