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Born January 15, 1815 • Guernsey • Channel Islands
Died April 19, 1889 (aged 74) • London • England

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De la Rue
solar eclipse; De la Rue, Warren
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English 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
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Sir George Darwin
Sir George Darwin
British astronomer
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Herbert Hall Turner
British astronomer
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Jeremiah Horrocks
British astronomer
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Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and astronomer
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Isaac Roberts
British astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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
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Henry Peach Robinson
British photographer
Sir Harold Jeffreys
Sir Harold Jeffreys
British astronomer and geophysicist
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Bill Brandt
British photographer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
Atkins, Anna: Ferns
Anna Atkins
English photographer and botanist
William Henry Fox Talbot
William Henry Fox Talbot
British chemist, linguist, and photographer

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