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Hermann Karl Vogel
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
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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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Born April 3, 1842 • Leipzig • Germany
Died August 13, 1907 (aged 65) • Potsdam • Germany
Notable Works “Spectra der Planeten”
Subjects Of Study spectroscopic binary star
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
William Wallace Campbell
William Wallace Campbell
American astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Regiomontanus
German mathematician
Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
British-German astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, detail of a lithograph by H. Mitreuter after a portrait by C.A. Jensen, 1844
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian astronomer
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Johann Daniel Titius
Prussian astronomer
Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Max Wolf
Max Wolf
German astronomer
Johannes Hevelius.
Johannes Hevelius
Polish astronomer

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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.
All About Astronomy
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
View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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