Astronomy -- Individual Biography, A-Z

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Individual Biography, A-Z

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Benjamin Banneker
he never let the prejudices of his time stand in the way of his advancement

Tycho Brahe
doubter of the Ptolemaic structure of the universe

Giovanni Domenico Cassini
mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer

Anders Celsius
developer of a temperature scale

Nicolaus Copernicus
the first to publicly propose that the Earth moves around the Sun

Galileo Galilei
Italian physicist and astronomer who "discovered gravity"

Edmund Halley
namesake of a very famous comet

Caroline Herschel
the first woman astronomer to earn a salary

Sir Frederick William Herschel
discoverer of Uranus

Ptolemy
developer of the "Earth-centered universe theory"

Clyde William Tombaugh
discoverer of Pluto