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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Also Known As Edmund Halley
Born November 8, 1656 • England
Died January 14, 1742 (aged 85) • Greenwich • England
Notable Works “A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets”
Subjects Of Study Eta Carinae • M13 • Moon • Venus • astronomical unit • comet • orbit • transit • measurement • navigation • Halley’s Comet

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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
John Flamsteed
British astronomer
George Dollond
British optician
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
Mei Juecheng
Chinese mathematician and astronomer
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Johannes Hevelius.
Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer
Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer

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Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
Astronomy and Space Quiz
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
All About Astronomy
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