Gilles-François de Gottignies (10 March 1630 – 6 April 1689) was a Belgian Jesuit mathematician and astronomer.
Life De Gottignies was born in 1630 in Brussels, but became a very active member of the scientific community in Rome, where he became professor of mathematics at the Roman College. He opposed Jean-Dominique Cassini's theory and his works were translated in French by Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon. He died in Rome, aged 59, in 1689.
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