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Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian plant physiologist and physicist
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Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
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Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
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Edmund Gunter
English mathematician
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
British-born American engineer and industrialist
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British optician
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Jesse Ramsden
British toolmaker
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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
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
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Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
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Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
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Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
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Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
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Pierre Bouguer
French scientist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
English scientist
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher

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