Person · short entry
Jacques Montaigne
Observer at Limoges who saw Neith four times in May 1761 AD.
Jacques Montaigne observed from Limoges, in France. On May 3, 1761 AD he saw a small crescent some twenty-two minutes of arc from Venus, lit in the same phase as the planet, and he saw it four times that month. His sightings were reported to the Paris Academy of Sciences, where they were used to work out the satellite's orbit.