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View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
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Numbers and Mathematics
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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Where Did the Moon Come From?
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Born June 5, 1819 • England
Died January 21, 1892 (aged 72) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1848)
Subjects Of Study Neptune
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
James Challis
British astronomer
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Heinrich Louis d’Arrest
German astronomer
Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician

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Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
All About Astronomy
View of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, M31).
Astronomy and Space Quiz
Equations written on blackboard
Numbers and Mathematics