Nicolas Louis de La Caille

15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762

Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer who named 14 out of the 88 constellations. From 1750-1754 he studied the sky at the Cape of Good Hope in present day South Africa. Lacaille observed over 10,000 stars using just a half-inch refractor.

• A catalogue of 9766 stars in the southern hemisphere, for the beginning of the year 1750, from the observations of the Abbe de Lacaille made at the Cape of Good Hope in the years 1751 and 1752
• Journal historique du voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-Espérance
• Lectiones elementares opticae ex editione Parisina anni MDCCLVI in latinum traductae a C.S[cherffer] e S[ocietate J[esu] quibus auctarii loco accessit Brevis theoria micrometri objectivi a R.P. Rogerio Josepho Boscovich concinnata
• Travels at the Cape, 1751-53
• A catalogue of 9766 stars in the southern hemisphere
• Ad lectiones elementares astronomiæ, physicæ, et geometricæ
• Astronomiae fundamenta
• Astronomiæ fundamenta
• Atlas souvenir de l'abbé de La Caille
• Clarissimi viri d. de La Caille ...
• Clarissimi viri d. de La Caille ... Lectiones elementares astronomiae, geometriae, et physicae, ex editione Parisina anni MDCCLV in latinum traductae a C. S. e S. J.
• Clarissimi viri D. de La Caille ... Lectiones elementares mechanicae, seu Brevis tractatus de motu, et aequilibrio