Nicholas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637)

Discovered the Orion Nebula in 1610. However, this discovery fell forgotten until 1916 when M.G. Bigourdan (1916) announced its recovery.

  • de Peiresc biography and references, Galileo Project at Rice University

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