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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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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law
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 Johann Daniel Tietz
Born January 2, 1729 • Prussia
Died December 11, 1796 (aged 67) • Wittenberg
Subjects Of Study Bode’s law
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Johann Elert Bode
German astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Theodore Hall
American-born physicist and spy
James Peebles
American physicist
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
Robert Hooke
British scientist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert
Belgian astronomer
Fritz Zwicky
Swiss scientist

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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.
Faces of Science
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
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
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
View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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