History of Astronomy:
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General
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Persons
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- Dechend, Hertha von (1915-2001)
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- Maclaurin [Mac Laurin], Colin (1698-1746)
- Magellan, Ferdinand [Port. Magalhaes, Fernão;
Span. Fernando de Magallanes] (c.1480-1521)
- Manilius, Marcus (fl. A.D. 10)
- Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811)
- Maupertuis, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698-1759)
- Maxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879)
- Mayer, Tobias [wrongly also: Johann Tobias] (1723-1762)
- Menzel, Donald Howard (1901-1976)
- Mercator, Gerardus [Kremer, Gerhard] (1512-1594)
- Millikan, Robert Andrews (1868-1953)
- Mitchell, Maria (1818-1889)
- Möbius, August Ferdinand (1790-1868)
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- Nernst, Walther Hermann (1864-1941)
- Newcomb, Simon (1835-1909)
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Newton, Isaac (1643-1727)
- Nicholas of Cusa [Nicolaus Cryffts; Nicolaus de Cusa; Nicolaus von Cues;
Cusanus] (1401-1464)
- Nostradamus (1503-1566)
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- Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm (1758-1840)
- Oort, Jan Hendrik (1900-1992)
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- Painlevé, Paul (1863-1933)
- Peirce, Benjamin (1809-1880)
- Penzias, Arno Allan (b. 1933)
- Perrault, Claude (1613-1688)
- Architect, built the Observatoire de Paris.
- Perrine, Charles (1867-1951)
- Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)
- Picard, Jean (1620-1682)
- Pickering, Edward Charles (1846-1919)
- Pickering, William Henry (1858-1938)
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)
- Plato (428 BC - 347 BC)
- Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854-1912)
- Poseidonius of Apamea [Posidonius] (c. 135 BC - c. 50 BC)
- Priscillian (?-385?)
- Ptolemy [Ptolomaeus; Ptolemaios, Klaudios; Ptolemeus] (c.87-c.165)
- Pythagoras of Samos (580 BC - 500 BC)
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- Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe (1796-1874)
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Index of all persons from A to Z (updated)
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