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Born June 27, 1767 • France
Died June 7, 1843 (aged 75) • Paris • France
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John Bainbridge
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Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist
Jérôme Lalande, etching by Christian Fritzsch, 1773.
Jérôme Lalande
French astronomer
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al-Battānī
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Delambre, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre
French astronomer
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Jacques Cassini
French astronomer
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Pierre Mechain
French scientist
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Fred L. Whipple
American astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
American astronomer
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Carolyn Shoemaker
American astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
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Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
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Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
Italian astronomer
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Gene Shoemaker
American astrogeologist
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David H. Levy
Canadian astronomer and science writer
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Giovanni Battista Donati
Italian astronomer
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Wilhelm, Freiherr von Biela
Austrian astronomer

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