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    Jean Picard (21 July 1620 – 12 July 1682) was a French astronomer and priest born in La Flèche, where he studied at the Jesuit Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand...
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  • Jean-Luc Picard is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise, most often seen as the commanding officer of the Federation starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)...
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    Star Trek Universe. The series focuses on retired Starfleet Admiral Jean-Luc Picard. It begins at the end of the 24th century, 20 years after the character's...
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  • up Picard or picard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Picard may refer to: Picardy, a region of France Picard language, a language of France Jean-Luc...
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  • Jean Picard was a French bookbinder, active around 1540. Picard is notable for having bound many books for the bibliophile Jean Grolier. He may also have...
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  • season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401 as he reunites with the former command...
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  • scandal Jean Picard, French bookbinder (active to 1547) commissioned by patrons such as Jean Grolier Jean Picard (1620–1682), French astronomer Jean Piccard...
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    Picard is a lunar impact crater that lies in Mare Crisium. The crater is named for 17th century French astronomer and geodesist Jean Picard. It is the...
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  • season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard in the year 2401. He and his companions are trapped...
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  • season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard after he retired from Starfleet following the destruction...
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  • of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is given his former vessel, the Stargazer, as a gift...
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    ISBN 978-0-87169-186-6. Picard, Jean (1671). La Mesure de la Terre [The Measurement of the Earth] (in French). Paris, France: Imprimerie Royale. p. 4. Picard described...
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    an artifact of the Aristotelian cosmic system, in his publication. Jean Picard, known for measuring lines of longitude, revisited the ruins of Uraniborg...
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  • Star Trek: Picard is an American web television series featuring the character Jean-Luc Picard, created for CBS All Access by Akiva Goldsman, Michael...
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  • 1609) 1616 – Anna de' Medici, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1676) 1620 – Jean Picard, French astronomer (d. 1682) 1648 – John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee...
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    Earth, then considered as a sphere, by Jean Picard through triangulation of Paris meridian. In 1671, Jean Picard also measured the length of a seconds...
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  • Gaston Macron (...), est né en 1920 à Corbie dans la Somme et est resté Picard jusqu'à sa mort en 2010 à Amiens. Boucher, Laurent (26 April 2017). « Sur...
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  • during World War II, career criminal Jean Picard awaits execution. French Sûreté Inspector Marcel Bonet has pursued Picard for 15 years, finally apprehending...
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  • Francois Picard, named after Picard's older brother (Robert) and nephew (René). However, in the canonical sequel series Star Trek: Picard, Beverly and Jean-Luc...
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    for the radius of Earth, which had been measured by their colleague Jean Picard in 1669 as 3,269,000 toises. This same year saw another estimate for...
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  • on the climate of the Earth. The PICARD mission was named after the French astronomer of the 17th century Jean Picard (1620–1682) who achieved the first...
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  • Soleil, de la Lune & des autres planètes, first published yearly by Jean Picard and still extant. 1975 – Owen Gingerich, using modern planetary theory...
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  • of the Federation starship Enterprise-D. In this episode, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) is struck unconscious by an energy beam from an alien...
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    6695. JSTOR 23436957. Picard, Jean; de la Hire, Philippe (1729). "Pour la Carte de France corrigée sur les Observations de MM. Picard & de la Hire". Mémoires...
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    observed by Robert Hooke in 1674, and tested in a series of observations by Jean Picard over a period of ten years, finishing in 1680. However, it was not explained...
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    Your Lucky Stars David Butler Himself 1944 Uncertain Glory Raoul Walsh Jean Picard Flynn co-produced the film 1945 Objective, Burma! Raoul Walsh Captain...
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    Earth, which had been measured by their colleague Jean Picard in 1669 as 3269 thousand toises. Picard's geodetic observations had been confined to the determination...
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    later, within that primary network. Snell's methods were taken up by Jean Picard who in 1669–70 surveyed one degree of latitude along the Paris Meridian...
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  • in exploration, particularly with balloons. The Star Trek character Jean-Luc Picard was named in honour of this family. Members include: Jules Piccard...
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    method proved practical and was used by Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Jean Picard to re-map France. Some models predict that there may have been several...
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