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- Dava Sobel (born 1947) is a writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton...
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- male, deceased (1776)
- John Harrison was an English clockmaker who revolutionised and extended the possibility of safe long distance sea travel in the Age of Sail by...
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- Eratosthenes (Greek ; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for...
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- male, deceased (1762)
- Tobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in p...
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- male, deceased (1555)
- Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, December 9, 1508 - May 25, 1555) was a mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker. He created important...
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- Timocharis of Alexandria (ca. 320 BC - 260 BC) was a Greek astronomer and philosopher. Likely born in Alexandria, he was a contemporary of Euclid....
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- male, deceased (1820)
- Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764 - March 11, 1820) was a Scottish-Canadian explorer. MacKenzie was born in Stornoway on the isle of Lewis in the Outer...
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- male, deceased (1948)
- Rupert Thomas Gould (November 16, 1890 - October 5, 1948), was a Lieutenant Commander in the British Royal Navy. He grew up in Southsea, near...
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- male, deceased (1712)
- Giovanni Domenico Cassini (June 8, 1625-September 14, 1712) was an Italian-French astronomer, engineer, and astrologer. Cassini, also known as...
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- male, deceased (1846)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel...
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