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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1620-07-21 ) 21 July 1620, La Flèche , Kingdom of France
- Died
- 12 July 1682 (1682-07-12) (aged 61), Paris, Kingdom of France
- Occupations
- Astronomer , priest
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jean
- Family name
- Picard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- La Flèche
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- Catholic priest
- Educated at
- collège Henri-IV de La Flèche
- Employer
- Collège de France
- Languages spoken
- French
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Student of
- Pierre Gassendi
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- Jean Picard portrait.jpg
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- Commons category
- Jean Picard
- date of birth
- 1620-07-21
- date of death
- 1682-07-12
- member of
- French Academy of Sciences
- described by source
- The Catholic Encyclopedia
- birth name
- Jean-Felix Picard
- name in native language
- Jean Picard
- place of burial
- Église Saint-Médard
- Commons Creator page
- Jean Picard
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Encyclopedic overview
Jean Picard ( French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ pikaʁ]; 21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French priest, astronomer and pioneer in geodesy, born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Collège royal Henri le Grand. He is best known for accurately measuring the size of the Earth, through a survey of one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian.
Geodesy
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jean Picard” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.