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Born September 23, 1791 • Hamburg • Germany
Died August 26, 1865 (aged 73) • Spandau • Germany
Subjects Of Study measurement • Encke’s Comet • Encke’s gap

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Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Pierre Mechain
French scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Jean Picard
French astronomer
Jean Richer
French astronomer
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
French astronomer
George Dollond
British optician
Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Regiomontanus
German mathematician

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