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Born November 25, 1783 • Mâcon • France
Died March 5, 1875 (aged 91) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study distance • star • measurement
Engraving of six astronomers, with Hipparchus seated at center and, from left to right, Galileo, Johannes Hevelius, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Ptolemy standing, each holding scientific instruments.
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Painting of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wearing a black robe with a white ruffled collar and a gold chain necklace with a large pendant.
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Portrait of Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace wearing formal attire with a sash and star-shaped medal, looking slightly to his left.
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
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Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
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Jean Picard
French astronomer
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Jean Richer
French astronomer
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
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Charles Messier
French astronomer
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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
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Jean-Charles de Borda
French mathematician and nautical astronomer
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Pierre Mechain
French scientist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer

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