Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

Joseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer and cartographer. Delisle is mostly known for the Delisle scale, a temperature scale he invented in 1732.

4 April 1688

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Born in the same month (April 1688): Johann Friedrich Fasch