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Born 1680
Died 1751 (aged 71)
Title / Office Royal Society (1710)
Subjects Of Study circle • pi
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Zhao Youqin
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and Daoist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Zu Chongzhi
Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and engineer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Thomas Harriot
English mathematician and astronomer
John Greaves
English mathematician, astronomer, and antiquary
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and 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.
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Equations written on blackboard
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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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