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Born December 6, 1848 • Opava • Silesia
Died May 2, 1925 (aged 76) • Vienna • Austria
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Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
American astronomer
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
American astronomer
John Flamsteed
British astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
Max Wolf
Max Wolf
German 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
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American 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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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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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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