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Born April 4, 1688 • Paris • France
Died September 11, 1768 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire et au progrès de l’astronomie”
Subjects Of Study Mercury • Venus • astronomical unit • atmospheric corona • transit • measurement
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
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Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
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Jean Picard
French astronomer
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Jean Richer
French astronomer
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Pierre Mechain
French scientist
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Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
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
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
American 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
David Rittenhouse
David Rittenhouse
American astronomer and inventor
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Encke, Johann Franz
Johann Franz Encke
German astronomer
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George Dollond
British optician
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Nathaniel Bliss
English astronomer
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

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