Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

male, deceased (1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the...
Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus

male
Heraclides Ponticus (387 BC-312 BC), also known as Herakleides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz...
Erasmus Reinhold

Erasmus Reinhold

male, deceased (1553)
Erasmus Reinhold (October 22, 1511 - February 19, 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Thuringia,...

Omar Khayyám

male, deceased (1123)
Ghiyās al-Dīn Abu al-Fath Omār ibn Ibrāhīm Khayyām Nishābūrī or Omar Khayyam (b. May 18, 1048 Nishapur, (Persia) - d. December 4, 1131), was a Per...

Cosimo Boscaglia

male, deceased (1621)
Cosimo Boscaglia (c. 1550 - 1621) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Pisa in Italy. He is the first person known to have accused...

Saint Dungal

male
Saint Dungal, born in Ireland and died after 827, was an Irish monk, who served Charlemagne as an astronomer. In a letter, directed to Charlemagne,...
Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

male, deceased (1671)
Giovanni Battista Riccioli (b.April 17 1598, Ferrara, Italy - d. June 25 1671, Bologna, Italy) was an Italian astronomer. He was a Jesuit who...
Giulio Cesare La Galla

Giulio Cesare La Galla

male, deceased (1624)
Giulio Cesare la Galla was a professor of philosophy at the Collegio Romano in Italy. (His name is also given as Julius Cæsar Lagalla or Giulio C...

Seleucus Of Seleucia

male
Seleucus (or Seleukos) of Seleucia (born "c." 190 BC, "fl" 150s) was a Hellenistic astronomer. Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch. He...
Robert Hand

Robert Hand

male, 67 years old
Robert Hand (born December 5th, 1942 in Plainfield, New Jersey) is a prominent American practicing astrologer, author, translator, and lecturer. He...