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( r´´ stär´k s, r´´ stär´k s, s ´m s) (KEY) , fl. c.310 B.C.–c.230 B.C., Greek astronomer and mathematician of the Alexandrian school. He ...
(äsä´dä gôr´y ) (KEY) , 1734–99, Japanese astronomer who helped to introduce modern astronomical instruments and methods into Japan. Asada spe...
1872–1973, American astrophysicist, b. Wilton, N.H. He was acting director in 1896 and director in 1907 of the astrophysical observatory of the Smit...
(äl´´b mä´z r) (KEY) , 805?–885, Arab astronomer, more fully Abu-Mashar Jafar ibn Muhammad. In his De magnis conjunctionibus he claimed that th...
1819–92, English astronomer, grad. St. John’s College, Cambridge, 1843. By mathematical calculation based on irregularities in the motion of Uranu...
(ôt l´ k s) (KEY) , fl. 4th cent. B.C., astronomer and mathematician of Pitane in Aeolis. Of his two extant works, that on the revolving sphere is s...