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Born March 1693 • England
Died July 13, 1762 (aged 69) • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1748)
Subjects Of Study Earth • Copernican system • constant of aberration • nutation • speed of light

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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault
French physicist
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
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John Pond
British astronomer
Moon, Earth, and Sun diagrammed in Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
Aristarchus of Samos
Greek astronomer
Diagram illustrating Eratosthenes' method for calculating Earth's circumference, showing the angle of sunlight at Syene and Alexandria, camels traveling between the two cities, and rays from the Sun striking Earth's surface at different angles.
Eratosthenes
Greek scientist
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André-Louis Danjon
French astronomer
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
Sir Joseph Banks, engraving by Ridley, 1802
Sir Joseph Banks
British naturalist
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Baron Anson, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1745–46; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
George Anson, Baron Anson
British admiral
Admiral John Byron
John Byron
British admiral
Thomas Cavendish, engraving
Thomas Cavendish
English navigator and explorer
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese explorer
Bertrand Piccard, 1999.
Bertrand Piccard
Swiss aviator
Bougainville, engraving by Émile Lassalle after Maurin
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
French navigator
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Robert Fitzroy
British scientist
Brian Jones, 1999.
Brian Jones
British aviator
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Otto von Kotzebue
Russian explorer

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