Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī

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Also Known As	Shaykh Bahāʾī
Born	March 20, 1546 • Syria
Died	August 20, 1622 (aged 76) • Iran
Notable Works	“Nan u-halwa”
Subjects Of Study	jurisprudence

Omar Khayyam

Persian poet and astronomer

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Benjamin Peirce

American mathematician and astronomer

Nathaniel Bowditch

American navigator

Muḥammad Taqī Bahār

Iranian author

Rūdakī

Persian poet

Farkas Bolyai

Hungarian mathematician and writer

Galileo

Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician

Euclid

Greek mathematician

Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)

Hipparchus

Greek astronomer

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician

Henry Norris Russell

American astronomer

Ptolemy

Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

Rūmī

Sufi mystic and poet

Edmond Halley

British scientist

Sir William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

Christiaan Huygens

Dutch scientist and mathematician

Arthur Eddington

British scientist

Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace

French scientist and mathematician

Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet

English 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.

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

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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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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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