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Born November 29, 1866 • Kingston upon Hull • England
Died July 22, 1938 (aged 71) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study Moon • space motion
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
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay
French astronomer
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George William Hill
American astronomer
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Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Engraved portrait of Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in profile, wearing a dark coat and ruffled white shirt, from the 1740s.
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
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al-Kāshī
Persian astronomer and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
De la Rue
Warren De la Rue
British scientist and inventor
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker
American scientist
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John Couch Adams
British astronomer
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Wallace J. Eckert
American astronomer
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Dorothy Maud Wrinch
British-American mathematician and biochemist

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