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a French astronomer. Auzout made contributions in telescope observations, including perfecting the use of the micrometer. He made many observations with large aerial telescopes and he is noted for briefly considering the construction of a huge aerial telescope 1,000 feet in length that he would use to observe animals on the Moon.
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Adrien Auzout1622, Jan 281640
 
16691691, May 23
Bonaventura Cavalieri15981632
 
16471647, Nov 30
 an Italian mathematician and a Jesuat. He is known for his work on the problems of optics and mot...
Godefroy Wendelin1580, Jun 61599
 
16521667, Oct 24
 a Flemish astronomer. The crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him. Around 1630 he measur...
Pierre Gassendi1592, Jan 221617
 
16531655, Oct 24
 a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po...
Muhammad Salih Tahtawiunknown1659
 
 
1660unknown
 a Mughal metallurgist, astronomer, geometer and craftsman, was born and raised in Thatta, Sindh ...
Ismael Bullialdus1605, Sep 281632
 
16671694, Nov 25
 a famous astronomer and mathematician during the seventeenth century. He published several books,...
Giovanni Battista Riccioli1598, Apr 171628
 
16711671, Jun 25
 an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things,...
George Hartgillunknown1590
 
168unknown
 an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k...
Johannes Hevelius1611, Jan 281630
 
16831687, Jan 28
 an astronomer he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography" and described ten new c...
Giovanni Cassini1625, Jun 81648
 
16831712, Sep 14
 an Italian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and engineer, born in Perinaldo, known for his w...
Christiaan Huygens1629, Apr 141649
 
16931695, Jul 8
 a prominent Dutch mathematician, scientist, astronomer, physicist, probabilist and horologist. Hi...
Ole Christensen Romer1644, Sep 251662
 
17101710, Sep 19
 a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light. I...
John Flamsteed1646, Aug 191662
 
17191719, Dec 31
 an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation ...
Isaac Newton1642, Dec 251665
 
17261726, Mar 20
 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ...
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