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Also Known As François-Félix Tisserand
Born January 13, 1845 • France
Died October 20, 1896 (aged 51) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Traité de mécanique céleste”
Charles Messier
French astronomer
Lacaille, detail from an engraving
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
French astronomer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
John Flamsteed
British astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
Iranian scholar
Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer
Johannes Hevelius.
Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer
Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
Prussian astronomer
Johan Dreyer, c. 1910
Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer
Danish astronomer

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