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Great Astronomers

Great Astronomers by Sir Robert S. Ball , 1895 (paraphrased by Leslie Noelani Laurio) Preface and Introduction (are below; scroll down) Claudius Ptolemy , 100 AD-168 AD Nicolaus Copernicus , 1473-1543 Tycho Brahe , 1546-1601 Galileo Galilei , 1564-1642 Johannes Kepler , 1571-1630 Sir Isaac Newton , 1643-1727 John Flamsteed , 1646-1719 Edmond Halley , 1656-1742 James Bradley , 1693-1762 Sir William Herschel , 1738-1822 Pierre-Simon Laplace , 1749-1827 John Brinkley , 1763-1835, and the Dunsink Observatory in Dublin Sir John Herschel , 1792-1871 William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse , 1800-1867 Sir George Biddell Airy , 1801-1892 Sir William Rowan Hamilton , 1805-1865 Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier , 1811-1877 John Couch Adams , 1819-1892 _____________________________________________ Preface by Robert Stawell Ball, 1895 My object in writing this book is to present the life of each astronomer in so much detail that the reader will understand the man's character
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Great Astronomers: Ptolemy

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Great Astronomers in Modern English by Sir Robert S. Ball, 1895  (paraphrased by Leslie Noelani Laurio) To view the table of contents for the rest of this book, click here . Claudius Ptolemy, 100 AD-168 AD     Created the elaborate geocentric Ptolemaic model of the universe. The "P" in Ptolemy is silent, so the name is pronounced TOH leh mee. The career of the man who gets the first chapter in this book is one of the most remarkable careers in the history of human learning. Perhaps other men may have done more for science, but no other discoverer's ideas and authority has influenced the minds of men for as long as his -- his opinions about how heavenly bodies move were the ones everyone believed for fourteen centuries! The theories he explained in his book "The Almagest" [ online at archive.org ] were accepted as true for ages. In all that time, nobody even made any notable additions to what he laid out, and none of his many errors were corrected. He
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Great Astronomers: Galileo

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Great Astronomers in Modern English by Sir Robert S. Ball, 1895 (paraphrased by Leslie Noelani Laurio) To view the table of contents for the rest of this book, click here . Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642     Not only the first astronomer to use the telescope; he paved the way for the acceptance of Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe. Of all the famed astronomers, it would be hard to find one whose life had more interesting events and fluctuations than Galileo's. He was a patient investigator and a brilliant discoverer. He had some fascinating personal relationships, especially with his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, who was a very exceptional woman. There was also the sad drama near the end of his life, when his work drew the criticism of the Inquisition. There are many resources about Galileo's life to use for writing a biography. This chapter made use of the charming letters his daughter wrote to him from her convent. More than a hundred of them survi
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