Conon of Samos

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Flourished	c.250 BCE - c.225 BCE
Notable Works	“De astrologia” • “Pros Thrasydaion”
Subjects Of Study	conic section

Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)

Hipparchus

Greek astronomer

Ptolemy

Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer

Eudoxus of Cnidus

Greek mathematician and astronomer

Apollonius of Perga

Greek mathematician

Sosigenes of Alexandria

Greek astronomer and mathematician

Menaechmus

Greek mathematician

Galileo

Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician

Blaise Pascal

French philosopher and scientist

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician

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

Simon Newcomb

American astronomer and mathematician

Omar Khayyam

Persian poet and astronomer

Ibn al-Haytham

Arab astronomer and mathematician

al-Kāshī

Persian astronomer and mathematician

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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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