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ASTRONOMY

Publication of Nicolas Louis De Lacaille 's ''Coelum australe stelliferum'', cataloguing all his data from the southern hemisphere and including about 10,000 stars and a number of brighter star clusters and Nebula e

AWARDS

Copley Medal : Not awarded

BIRTHS

May 16 - Louis Nicolas Vauquelin , chemist (died 1829 )

December 25 - Claude Chappe , engineer (died 1805 )

John Brinkley , astronomer (died 1835 )

William Maclure , geologist (died 1840 )

DEATHS

July 11 - Peter Forsskål , Swedish naturalist (born 1732 )