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Thomas Digges ( / dɪɡz /; c. 1546 – 24 August 1595) was an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in English but discarded the notion of a fixed shell of immoveable stars to postulate infinitely many stars at varying distances. [1] He was also first to postulate the "dark night sky paradox".
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1 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh. Thomas Henderson FRSE FRS FRAS (28 December 1798 – 23 November 1844) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician noted for being the first person to measure the distance to Alpha Centauri, the major component of the nearest stellar system to Earth, the first to determine the parallax of a fixed star, and for being the first Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
Known for. Transit of Venus. Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. Mathematics. William Crabtree (1610–1644) was an English astronomer, mathematician, and merchant from Broughton, then in the Hundred of Salford, Lancashire, England. He was one of only two people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639 .
David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto. Charles Thomas Bolton (April 15, 1943 – c. February 4, 2021) [1] was an American-Canadian astronomer who was one of the first in his field to present strong evidence of the existence of a stellar-mass black hole. [2] [3]
33 Thomas Street (ex AT&T Long Lines Building) è un grattacielo situato a Lower Manhattan, New York City. Si trova sul lato est di Church Street, tra Thomas Street e Worth Street. L'edificio, alto 170 metri è un esempio dello stile architettonico brutalista. Si tratta di una centrale telefonica o di un centro di cablaggio che conteneva tre ...
Scientific career. Fields. Astronomy. John Flamsteed FRS (19 August 1646 – 31 December 1719) [a] was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously.
