Owen Gingerich
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LOCATION: Cambridge, MA, United States
Professor of Astronomy and of the History of Science, Harvard University. Senior Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Author of The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler.
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Astronomical map, any cartographic representation of the stars, galaxies, or surfaces of the planets and the Moon. Modern maps of this kind are based on a coordinate system analogous to geographic latitude and longitude. In most cases, modern maps are compiled from photographic observations made…
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