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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert.
Jean Le Rond d’Alembert
French mathematician and philosopher
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Kidinnu
Babylonian astronomer and mathematician
al-Battānī
Arab astronomer and mathematician

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