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Born March 29, 1890 • London • England
Died November 3, 1960 (aged 70) • London • England
Subjects Of Study astronomical unit • solar parallax • measurement

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Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Margaret Burbidge
British astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
John Pond
British astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
George Dollond
British optician
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
John Flamsteed
British astronomer
Samuel Molyneux
British astronomer
William Hunter Kendal
British actor and manager
Florence Nightingale at the Barrack Hospital
Florence Nightingale
British nurse, statistician, and social reformer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
British industrialist and politician

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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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