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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 4, 1809 • Salem • Massachusetts
Died October 6, 1880 (aged 71) • Cambridge • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study Neptune • Uranus • perturbation

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Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
John Couch Adams
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Bowditch, Nathaniel
Nathaniel Bowditch
American navigator
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Bahāʾ ad-dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
Iranian scholar
James Challis
British astronomer
Heinrich Louis d’Arrest
German astronomer
Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
Henry Norris Russell
American astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker
American scientist
Haskell Brooks Curry
American mathematician
Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and astronomer
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

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