Happy Picard Day!

Today is the day we celebrate the birthday of one Jean Picard. No, not Jean-Luc Picard, the real one.

http://www.cnes-jeunes.fr/web/CNES-Jeunes-fr/8064-picard-le-soleil-et-nous.php

Jean-Félix Picard was a 17th century french astronomer and priest. He is most famous for measuring the size of the earth to with a reasonable margin of error (0.44% less than the measurement we go off today) and pioneering the method of measuring the right ascension of a celestial object.

Weirdly enough, Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard was not named after our Jean-Felix, but for 20th century Swiss Scientists Jean Felix and Auguste Piccard. 

Happy 392nd Birthday Jean-Félix Picard!