Jean Le Fèvre (astronomer)
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Jean Le Fèvre (9 April 1652 – 1706, Paris) was a French astronomer and physicist. He was editor of the ''
Connaissance des Temps The ''Connaissance des temps'' (English: Knowledge of the Times) is an official yearly publication of astronomical ephemerides in France. Until just after the French Revolution, the title appeared as ''Connoissance des temps'', and for several ye ...
'' and was elected to the
French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...
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1652 births 1706 deaths 17th-century French astronomers French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences People from Lisieux 18th-century French astronomers {{France-physicist-stub