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Born July 22, 1784 ā€¢ Minden
Died March 17, 1846 (aged 61) ā€¢ Prussia
Notable Works ā€œFundamenta Astronomiaeā€
Subjects Of Study 61 Cygni ā€¢ Sirius ā€¢ Bessel function ā€¢ Besselā€™s equation ā€¢ space motion ā€¢ star ā€¢ measurement

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Karl Schwarzschild
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Tycho Brahe
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
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Edward Sabine
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
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William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Otto Heckmann
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Edmond Halley
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Arthur Eddington
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
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Jean-Sylvain Bailly
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