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Born November 28, 1700 • England
Died September 2, 1764 (aged 63) • Oxford • England
Subjects Of Study Venus • geometry
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Jeremiah Horrocks
British 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
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
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Margaret Burbidge
English-born American astronomer
Airy, c. 1877
Sir George Biddell Airy
English astronomer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
De la Rue
Warren De la Rue
British scientist and inventor
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
Lockyer
Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
British astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
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William Rutter Dawes
British astronomer
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John Bainbridge
English astronomer
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George Dollond
British optician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

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