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Jean-Philippe Baratier
1740Oct, 5

Jean-Philippe Baratier

Jean-Philippe Baratier, German astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
Jean-Philippe Baratier (also Johann Philipp Baratier; 19 January 1721 in Schwabach near Nuremberg – 5 October 1740) was a German scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts.

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