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Born June 18, 1799 • Bolton • England
Died October 5, 1880 (aged 81) • Maidenhead • England
Subjects Of Study Neptune • Saturn • Triton • Uranus

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Christiaan Huygens
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Gian Domenico Cassini.
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James Challis
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John Couch Adams
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
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James Keeler
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Jacques Cassini
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Heinrich Louis d’Arrest
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Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
illustration of Robert Hooke's law of elasticity of materials
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Arthur Stanley Eddington.
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John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
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Sir Bernard Lovell
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Martin Rees
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James Chadwick
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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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