* Astronomy

Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (September 12, 1725 - October 22, 1792) was a French astronomer.
He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
He was part of the international collaborative project to measure the distance to the Sun, by observing the transit of Venus at different points on the earth.
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