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Bernard Lyot
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
Astronomy and Space Quiz
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
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Inventors and Inventions
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Planet Earth and lunar moon from space
Where Did the Moon Come From?
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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
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Born February 27, 1897 • Paris • France
Died April 2, 1952 (aged 55) • Cairo • Egypt
Inventions coronagraph
Alexandre Alexeïeff
French animator
Deslandres
Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
French physicist
Charles, Jacques-Alexandre-César
Jacques Charles
French physicist
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Samuel P. Langley.
Samuel Pierpont Langley
American engineer
Anders Celsius, detail from a drawing by an unknown artist, 18th century.
Anders Celsius
Swedish astronomer
Zhang Heng: seismoscope
Zhang Heng
Chinese mathematician, astronomer, and geographer
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Gian Domenico Cassini.
Gian Domenico Cassini
French astronomer
Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore Niépce
French inventor
Jeanne Villepreux-Power
French-born naturalist
Pierre Janssen, detail from an engraving
Pierre Janssen
French astronomer
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
French mathematician and astronomer
Gérard Mourou
French physicist
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, lithograph.
Louis Daguerre
French painter and physicist
Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard Bochart de Saron
French scientist

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