- Charles Messier
Charles Messier was a French astronomer who in 1774 published a catalogue of 45 deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters. The purpose of the catalogue was to help comet hunters (like himself) and other astronomical observers to distinguish between permanent and transient objects in the sky. Messier was born in Badonviller in the Lorraine region of France, the 10th of 12 children of catchpole Nicolas Messier and Francoise b. Grandblaise.
- Thomas James
Thomas James (c. 1573 - August, 1629) was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1593. In 1602, his wide knowledge of books, together with his skill in deciphering manuscripts and detecting literary forgeries, secured him the post of librarian to the library newly founded by Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford.
- John Woodward
John Woodward (May 1, 1665 - April 25, 1728) was an English naturalist and geologist. Woodward was born in Derbyshire. At the age of sixteen he went to London, where he studied with Dr Peter Barwick, physician to Charles II. In 1692 he was appointed professor of physic in Gresham College. In 1693 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, in 1695 was made M.D. by Archbishop Tenison and also by Cambridge, and in 1702 became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.
- Terri Seymour
Terri Seymour (born Theresa Helene Seymour in 1975 in Hertfordshire, England) is a British television presenter and sometime actress best known for being the girlfriend of "The X Factor" and "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell since 2002. She first found success as a commercial model appearing in catalogues and commercials, …
- Philibert Jacques Melotte
Philibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium. In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was not given its present name until 1975. The asteroid 676 Melitta, the only one he discovered, is named after him, in a way. Its name is in fact the Attic form of the Greek "Melissa", the bee, but its resemblance with the discoverer's name is not fortuitous.
- Philip Wouwerman
Philips Wouwerman (also Wouwermans, was a Dutch painter of hunting, landscape and battle scenes. He was first taught by his father, Paul Joosten Wouwerman, an historical painter of moderate ability. According to a contemporary account he had also studied with Frans Hals (1581/85-1666). Wouwerman became a member of its guild of painters in 1642, and he died after a successful career in his hometown in May 1668.
- Karl Woermann
Karl Woermann was a German art historian and museum director. He was born in Hamburg, studied at various universities (art history at Heidelberg and Munich), and traveled widely. In 1871 Woermann participated in the so-called "Holbein convention" in Dresden, at which a number of prominent art historians convened to determine which of two versions of Hans Holbein the Younger's Meyer Madonna was the original work.
- Alexander N. Vyssotsky
Alexander N. Vyssotsky (May 23, 1888 - December 31, 1973) was an astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Russia. During his 35 years at the McCormick Observatory of the University of Virginia he published many works. His best known is probably a catalog with five lists of stars entitled "Dwarf M Stars Found Spectrophotometrically". This work was important because it was the first list of nearby stars identified not by their motions in the sky, …
- Lie Yukou
Lie Yukou is considered the author of the Daoist book "Liezi", which uses his honorific name Liezi (列子; Lièzĭ; Lieh-tzu; "Master Lie"). The second Chinese character in Yukou is written "kou" 寇 "bandit; enemy"; the first is written "yu" 圄 "imprison", "yu" 禦 "resist; ward off", or occasionally "yu" 御 "drive (carriage); ride (horse); control" (the "Zhuangzi" claims Liezi could "yufeng" 御風 "ride the wind").
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Patrick Sarsfield Byrne was born on 17 April 1913 in Birkenhead, son of John Stephen Byrne, a butcher, and Marie Ann Byrne. He attended St Edward's College, Liverpool, between 1923-1930, having won one of two Birkenhead Town scholarships. In 1930 he won a state scholarship, to study at the University of Liverpool. In 1936 he graduated MB, ChB.
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- Camilla Hansen
Camilla Hansen , originally born and bred in Stockholm Sweden, has just recently started a new position within the UArctic organisation; Director of UArctic Online Course Catalogue. Camilla’s work will take her to Amherst , Massachusetts USA , where she will be joining the Scandinavian Seminar Group office. However, travelling is nothing new for Camilla, who has a profound interest and belonging to far away places.
- Hipparchus
Hipparchus (Greek ; ca. 190 BC - ca. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period. Hipparchus was born in Nicaea (now Iznik, Turkey), and probably died on the island of Rhodes. He is known to have been a working astronomer at least from 147 BC to 127 BC. Hipparchus is considered the greatest astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity.
- Stephen Groombridge
Stephen Groombridge (January 7 1755, Goudhurst - March 30 1832, Blackheath) was a British astronomer. In 1806, using a transit circle, he began compiling a star catalogue of stars down to about eighth or ninth magnitude. He spent ten years making observations and another ten years doing reductions of the data (correcting for refraction, instrument error and clock error). In 1827 he suffered a "severe attack of paralysis" from which he never fully recovered.
- Gan De
Gan De (fl. 4th century BC) was a Chinese astronomer/astrologer born in the State of Qi also known as the Lord Gan (Gan Gong). Along with Shi Shen, he is the first in history to compile a star catalogue, followed by the Greek Hipparchus who was the first in the Western tradition to create a star catalogue. He wrote two books, the "Treatise on Jupiter" and the 8-volumes "Treatise on Astronomical Astrology", both of which have been lost.
- Richard Sheepshanks
Richard Sheepshanks (July 30, 1794 - August 4, 1855) was a British astronomer. He graduated from Trinity College of Cambridge University in 1816. He was called to the bar in 1824 and took orders in Church of England in 1825, but did not practice either profession because the death of his father, a textile manufacturer, left him with sufficient wealth to pursue his scientific interests.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander was a Prussian astronomer. He was born in Memel in the Kingdom of Prussia (now Klaipėda in Lithuania), the son of a Finnish father and German mother. He studied with Friedrich Bessel, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1822 at Königsberg. From 1823 until 1837 he was the head of the Finnish observatory at Turku then at Helsinki. He then moved to Bonn, Germany. Here he developed a friendship with King Frederick William IV, …
- John M. Thome
John Macon Thome was an American-Argentine astronomer. Some sources say John Macom Thome. He is sometimes known as "Juan M. Thome". He was born in Palmyra, Pennsylvania and attended Lehigh University. He came to the Argentine National Observatory (today Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba) in 1870, working as the senior assistant of the director Benjamin A. Gould. He succeeded Gould as director in 1885.
- Adrien Baillet
Adrien Baillet was a French scholar and critic. Born in the village of Neuville near Beauvais, in Picardie. His parents could only afford to send him to a small school in the village, but he picked up some Latin from the friars of a neighbouring convent, who brought him under the notice of the bishop of Beauvais. By his kindness Baillet received a thorough education at the theological seminary, and was afterwards appointed to a post as teacher in the college of Beauvais.
- Thomas Kerrich
Thomas Kerrich was a clergyman, principal Cambridge University librarian (Protobibliothecarius), antiquary, draftsman and gifted amateur artist. He created one of the first catalogue raisonnés (for the works of artist Marten van Heemskerck). Thomas Kerrich was a freemason and was holder of an M.A, and was a Fellow of Magdalen College and a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He collected ancient Roman coins.
- David Teniers The Younger
David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist was the more celebrated son of David Teniers the Elder, almost ranking in celebrity with Rubens and Van Dyck, was born in Antwerp. Through his father, he was indirectly influenced by Elsheimer and by Rubens. We can also trace the influence of Adriaen Brouwer at the outset of his career. There is no evidence, however, that either Rubens or Brouwer interfered in any way with Teniers's education, …
- Daniel Wildenstein
Daniel Leopold Wildenstein (September 11, 1917 - October 23, 2001) was a major international art dealer, collector, and scholar, as well as a leading thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder. Born in Verrieres-le-Buisson, France (just outside of Paris), Wildenstein inherited the responsibility in 1963 of running Wildenstein & Company, a five-generation family business founded in 1875 by Nathan Wildenstein (Daniel's grandfather).
- Pope Linus
Pope Saint Linus (d. ca.79) was the second pope of the Roman Catholic Church. According to Irenaeus, Jerome, Eusebius, John Chrysostom, the "Liberian Catalogue" and the "Liber Pontificalis", Linus was the second Bishop of Rome, succeeding Saint Peter and succeeded by Anacletus. Irenaeus identifies him with the Linus mentioned in 2 Timothy, although this identification is not certain.
- Pope Marcellinus Marcellinus
Pope Saint Marcellinus, according to the "Liberian Catalogue", became bishop of Rome on June 30, 296; his predecessor was Pope Caius. He is not mentioned in the "Martyrologium hieronymianum", or in the "Depositio episcoporum", or in the "Depositio martyrus". Marcellinus’ pontificate began at a time when Diocletian was Roman Emperor, but had not yet started to persecute the Christians.
- Pope Sixtus Sixtus I
Pope Saint Sixtus I was pope from about 117 or 119 to 126 or 128, succeeding Pope Alexander I. In the oldest documents, Xystus is the spelling used for the first three popes of that name. The Vatican's "Annuario Pontificio" (2003) identifies him as a Roman who reigned from 117 or 119 to 126 or 128.
- Pope Anacletus
Pope Saint Anacletus or Anencletus, was the third pope (after St. Peter and St. Linus). His papal name, which is Greek, signifies one who has been "called back" to service. He may have been the same person as Cletus. Eusebius, Irenaeus, Augustine and Optatus all suggest that both names refer to the same individual.
- Pope Pontian
Pope Saint Pontian or Pontianus, was pope from July 21, 230 to September 28, 235. A little more is known of Pontian than his predecessors, apparently from a lost papal chronicle that was available to the compiler of the "Liberian Catalogue" of bishops of Rome, made in the fourth century ("Catholic Encyclopedia"). During his pontificate the schism of Hippolytus came to an end. Pontian and other church leaders, among them Hippolytus, …
- Pope Pius Pius I
Pope Saint Pius I was pope, perhaps from 140 to 154, though the Vatican's 2003 "Annuario Pontificio" lists 142 or 146 to 157 or 161. He is believed to have been born at Aquileia, in northern Italy, his father being one "Rufinus," who is said also to be of Aquileia according to the "Liber Pontificalis". He is said to have built one of the oldest chuches in Rome, Santa Pudenziana. Some conjecture that he was a martyr in Rome, …
- John Dreyer
John Louis Emil Dreyer (February 13 1852 - September 14 1926) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. He was born Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer in Copenhagen. In 1874, at the age of 22, he went to Ireland to work as the assistant of Lord Rosse (the son and successor of the Lord Rosse who built the Leviathan of Parsonstown telescope). In 1878 he went to Dunsink Observatory and in 1882 to Armagh Observatory, where he served as director until 1916.
- Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer
Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer was a Swiss astronomer who travelled to Moscow in 1845 to become Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the Survey Institute, and later director of the Moscow University Observatory. He was born at Wyla (canton of Zürich), Switzerland, in 1839 he went to Königsberg to assist Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. From 1841 to 1845 he worked at Pulkovo Observatory under Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve.
- Ernst Hartwig
Carl Ernst Albrecht Hartwig (January 14,1851 - May 3, 1923) was a German astronomer. He discovered a new star in M31 (the "Andromeda Nebula") on August 20,1885. This object was designated as supernova "S Andromedae". During the 1883 observation campaign of comet 6P/d'Arrest he found five NGC objects working at the Strasbourg Observatory. Craters on the Moon and on Mars were named in his honor.
- Timocharis
Timocharis of Alexandria (ca. 320 BC - 260 BC) was a Greek astronomer and philosopher. Likely born in Alexandria, he was a contemporary of Euclid. In approximately 3rd century BC, with the help of Aristillus, he created the first star catalogue in the Western world. Over 150 years later, Hipparchus would compare his own star catalogue to Timocharis' and discover that the longitude of the stars had changed over time, …
- Edward Troughton
Edward Troughton (October 1753 - June 12 1835) was a British instrument maker born in Corney, Cumberland who was notable for making telescopes and other astronomical instruments. In 1779 he became a partner with his brother John, and soon established himself as the top maker of navigational, surveying and astronomical instruments in Britain. He created the Groombridge Transit Circle in 1806, which Stephen Groombridge used to compile his star catalogue.
- Aristillus
Aristillus (fl. ca. 280 BC) was a Greek astronomer who created the first star catalogue in approximately 300 BC, with the help of Timocharis. He worked in the Great Library of Alexandria. The lunar crater Aristillus is named after him.
- Matthew Carr
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