Samuel Molyneux: Facts & Related Content

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Born July 18, 1689 • ChesterEngland
Died April 13, 1728 (aged 38) • England
Subjects Of Study reflecting telescopesolar parallaxstaraberration

Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Sir Frank Dyson, 1927.
Sir Frank Dyson
British astronomer
James Short
British optician and astronomer
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Otto Struve
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Frank Schlesinger
American astronomer
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn
Dutch astronomer
Gill, Sir David
Sir David Gill
Scottish astronomer
Herbert Hall Turner
British astronomer

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