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- Hipparchus (Greek Ἳππαρχος) (ca. 190 B.C.E. - ca. 120 B.C.E.) was a Greek, astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic ...39 KB (6,174 words) - 21:25, 30 January 2024
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- Giovanni Domenico Cassini, also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, (June 8, 1625 – September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer ...12 KB (1,827 words) - 14:07, 22 May 2024
- Edmond Halley FRS (sometimes "Edmund," November 8, 1656 – January 14, 1742) was an English astronomer who is best known for having ...11 KB (1,686 words) - 18:13, 12 February 2024
- Omar Khayyám (Persian عمر خیام; May 18, 1048 – December 4, 1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer. During his own ...11 KB (1,780 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- light' in 1948. The American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble was ... J.B. Whiteoak, an Australian radio astronomer, used the same instrument ...11 KB (1,644 words) - 17:07, 10 November 2022
- Sir Frederick William Herschel, FRS KH (November 15, 1738 - August 25, 1822) was a German-born British astronomer and composer who became famous ...13 KB (1,978 words) - 10:59, 9 May 2023
- of James Bradley, the eighteenth century astronomer who measured the speed ... In 1847, the Italian astronomer Benedict Sestini published a catalog ...11 KB (1,670 words) - 17:59, 10 December 2023
- to Dr John Brinkley, then the first Astronomer Royal for Ireland, and ... ===Hamilton as astronomer=== Hamilton's career as a student was ...21 KB (3,257 words) - 10:47, 12 May 2023
- In 1932, Ernst Öpik, an Estonian astronomer, proposed Ernst Öpik ... by Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrick Oort to explain an apparent contradiction: ...10 KB (1,441 words) - 10:34, 11 March 2023
- gradual, according to the speed of the vehicle. Astronomer John Dobson explained the effect thus: :"The reason the siren slides is because ...10 KB (1,666 words) - 19:27, 2 August 2023
- Benjamin Banneker, originally Banna Ka, or Bannakay (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American mathematician, astronomer ...14 KB (2,221 words) - 09:16, 27 September 2023
- E.) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because ...10 KB (1,516 words) - 19:18, 13 February 2024
- * Dickinson, Terence, and Alan Dyer. 2002. The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Willowdale, ON: Firefly Books. ISBN 155209507X * Koupelis, Theo ...10 KB (1,492 words) - 19:09, 16 April 2023
- 19, 1710, Copenhagen) was a Danish astronomer who demonstrated that light ... In 1671, the French astronomer Jean Picard was dispatched to Denmark ...15 KB (2,454 words) - 00:06, 18 November 2022
- Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish astronomer whose measurements of stellar and planetary ...28 KB (4,358 words) - 00:39, 3 May 2023
- In the late ninth century, Persian astronomer al-Farghani wrote extensively ... * [https://www.blindschalet.com/kba-be-an-astronomer-right-from-your ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 18:26, 19 August 2023
- Atlas, king of Mauretania, an expert astronomer. ==Encounter with Heracles== ... learned philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer." ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- was an important German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He was born near Königsberg, Bavaria and showed his aptitude for astronomy ...15 KB (2,318 words) - 03:03, 8 December 2022
- developed by British radio astronomer Martin Ryle and Australian-born engineer, radiophysicist, and radio astronomer Joseph Lade Pawsey in ...12 KB (1,739 words) - 22:45, 7 December 2022
- Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH (March 7, 1792 – May 11, 1871) was an English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental ...15 KB (2,220 words) - 05:56, 3 August 2022
- process developed by the British astronomer and photographer Sir John Herschel in 1842. Ware, Mike. 1999. Cyanotype: The History, Science and ...5 KB (743 words) - 05:41, 16 November 2023
