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Born July 18, 1689 • Chester • England
Died April 13, 1728 (aged 38) • England
Subjects Of Study reflecting telescope • solar parallax • star • aberration
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
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James Short
British optician and astronomer
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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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
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Otto Struve
American astronomer
Telescope at Birr Castle
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse
Irish astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
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Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
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Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
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Herbert Hall Turner
British astronomer

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