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Carl F.W. Ludwig
German physiologist
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Indian plant physiologist and physicist
Edmund Gunter
English mathematician
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
George Dollond
British optician
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
Anders Jonas Ångström
Swedish physicist
Joseph Loschmidt
Austrian chemist
Stephen Hales
Stephen Hales
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Pierre Bouguer
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