Here are posts labelled "Astronomy" on The Guide
Just the Facts:
- Name: Christiaan Huygens
- Birth: April 14, 1629, The Hague, Netherlands
- Death: July 8, 1695, The Hague, Netherlands
- Languages: Latin, French, Dutch
- Who he was: Dutch mathematician and scientist known as an astronomer and physicist, among other things. He discovered Saturn's moon, Titan, and invented the pendulum clock. He was a proponent of the wave theory of light, and the Treatise on Light is one of his major works.
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace
- Known as: Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Birth: March 23, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge, France
- Death: March 5, 1827, Paris, France
- Language: French
- Who he was: French astronomer and mathematician; Celestial Mechanics
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Arthur Eddington
- Birth: December 28, 1882, Kendal, England, UK
- Death: November 22, 1944, Cambridge, England, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and popularizer of science; The Mathematical Theory of Relativity; The Nature of the Physical World; New Pathways in Science
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (1990) (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Carl Sagan
- Birth: November 9, 1934, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
- Death: December 20, 1996, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Language: English
- Who he was: American scientist and author; Cosmos: A Personal Voyage; The Dragons of Eden; Pale Blue Dot; Contact (novel); Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, (1978)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Galileo Galilei
- Birth: February 15, 1564, Pisa, Italy
- Death: January 8, 1642, Florence, Italy
- Language: Italian
- Who he was: Italian astronomer; Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems); Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); GGB (+PGR 2); LRP
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Johannes Kepler
- Birth: December 27, 1571, Weil der Stadt, Germany
- Death: November 15, 1630, Regensburg, Germany
- Language: German
- Who he was: German astronomer; Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy); Harmonices Mundi (The Harmony of the World); Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae (Epitome of Copernican Astronomy)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Mikołaj Kopernik
- Known as: Nicolaus Copernicus, Nikolaus Kopernikus
- Birth: February 19, 1473, Toruń, Poland
- Death: May 24, 1543, Frombork, Poland
- Language: Latin; Polish (?); German (?)
- Who he was: German/Polish astronomer; De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); HC
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- Name: (Claudius) Ptolemy
- Birth: 90, Alexandria, Egypt
- Death: 168, Alexandria, Egypt
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greco-Egyptian scientist in Alexandria, Roman-era Egypt; Almagest (on astronomy); Geography of the "known world"
- Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: James Jeans
- Birth: September 11, 1877, Southport, UK
- Death: September 16, 1946, Dorking, UK
- Language: English
- Who he was: English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician; The Universe Around Us
- Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 2)
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Just the Facts:
- Name: Thales
- Date: c. 624-c. 546 BCE
- Place: Ancient Greece (actually, Miletus in Asia Minor, now in Turkey)
- Language: Greek
- Who he was: Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer; one of the first to take a non-mythological view of the world, making him a proto-scientist. His works survive only in fragments, and in references by others (notably Aristotle).
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