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Born June 10, 1710 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died June 14, 1768 (aged 58) • London • England
Amici, Giovanni Battista
Giovanni Battista Amici
Italian astronomer
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Raymond Neil Wilson
British physicist
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Samuel Molyneux
British astronomer
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George Dollond
British optician
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Peter Dollond
British optician
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon
English philosopher and educational reformer
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Ibn al-Haytham
Arab astronomer and mathematician
Telescope at Birr Castle
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse
Irish astronomer
Peiresc, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
French humanist
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Eustachio Divini
Italian optician
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Francis Hauksbee, the Younger
English scientist
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Niccolò Zucchi
Italian astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Lovell, Sir Bernard
Sir Bernard Lovell
English radio astronomer
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
Lord Rayleigh
British scientist
Chippendale, Thomas: drawing of a combined desk and bookcase
Thomas Chippendale
British cabinetmaker

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