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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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Born August 19, 1646 • England
Died December 31, 1719 (aged 73) • Greenwich • England
Notable Works “Historia Coelestis Britannica”
Subjects Of Study Cassiopeia A
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
James Bradley, detail of an oil painting after Thomas Hudson, c. 1742-47; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
James Bradley
English astronomer
Margaret Burbidge
British astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
British astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
Stephen Groombridge
British astronomer
John Pond
British astronomer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
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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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
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).
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