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George Airy (1801-1892)

  • Born in England.
  • His Transit Circle is still the official reference for longitude zero.
  • Through his influence, Greenwich Mean Time became the standard for Britain, and, later, for the world.

Al-Sufi (903-986)

  • Born in Arabia.
  • He integrated Ptolemy’s star catalogue with Arab star tradition and terminology.
  • He defined boundaries for the constellations.

Eugenios Antoniadi (1870-1944)

  • Born in Turkey.
  • He drew the best map of Mars of his day and modified the names of the planet’s features.
  • He studied Mercury and Venus, but drew some incorrect conclusions about them.





Aristarchus (ca. 310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE)

  • Born in Greece.
  • He was one of the first to maintain that Earth is in motion around the Sun.
  • He stated that the Moon shines by reflected light.

Aryabhata of Kusumapura (476-???? CE)

  • Born in India.
  • He made calculations of the sizes of the orbits of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
  • He devised a procedure for calculating the magnitudeand the duration of an eclipse.
  • He believed that Earth rotates and that Earth and the planets orbit the Sun.




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