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Astronomers • Cartographers born active died
1688, Apr 4 1712-1763 1768, Sep 11
a French astronomer and cartographer. From 1719 to 1722 he was employed at the Royal observatory, before returning to his observatory at the Luxembourg Palace. In 1725 when he was called by the Russian czar Peter the Great to Saint Petersburg to create and run the school of astronomy.
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Joseph-Nicolas Delisle 1688, Apr 4 1712
1763 1768, Sep 11
John Flamsteed 1646, Aug 19 1662 1719 1719, Dec 31 an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. His main achievements were the preparation ... Maria Margarethe Kirch 1670, Feb 25 1690 1719 1720, Dec 29 a German astronomer, and one of the first famous astronomers of her period due to her writings on... Isaac Newton 1642, Dec 25 1665 1726 1726, Mar 20 an English physicist and mathematician (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who ... Jiao Bingzhen 1689 1700 1726 1726 a noted painter and astronomer. In painting he is noteworthy as one of the first Qing dynasty pai... Jacques d'Allonville 1671, Jul 14 1692 1728 1732, Sep 10 an astronomer and mathematician. He concluded in his measurements taken during his stay in Marsei... Jacques Cassini 1677, Feb 18 1696 1740 1756, Apr 16 a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. He published... Edmond Halley 1656, Nov 8 1675 1742 1742, Jan 14 an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best know... Anders Celsius 1701, Nov 27 1730 1744 1744, Apr 25 a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician, professor of astronomy at Uppsala University,... Ignacije Szentmartony 1718, Oct 28 1753 1756 1793, Apr 15 a Croatian Jesuit priest, missionary, mathematician, astronomer and explorer. After graduating fr... Theodor Verhaegen 1701, Jun 3 1720 1759 1759, Jul 25 Very little is known about his life. He was born and died in Mechelen, though apparently worked i... Nicolas Louis de Lacaille 1713, Dec 28 1730 1761 1762, Mar 21 a French astronomer and priest. His desire to determine the distances of the planets trigonometri... James Bradley 1693, Mar 1714 1762 1762, Jul 13 an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmond Halley. He is b... Nathaniel Bliss 1700, Nov 28 1742 1762 1764, Sep 2 an English astronomer of the 18th century, serving as Britain's fourth Astronomer Royal between 1... Mikhail Lomonosov 1711, Nov 8 1742 1764 1765, Apr 4 a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, educati... Charles Green 1735 1760 1771 1771, Jan 29 a British astronomer and member of the expedition to observe the transit of Venus aboard James Co... James Ferguson [3] 1710, Apr 25 1720 1773 1776, Nov 17 a Scottish astronomer, instrument and globe maker. It is, as the inventor and improver of astron... Stephen Hopkins 1707, Mar 7 1730 1779 1785, Jul 13 a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode... Thomas Wright [2] 1711, Sep 22 1730 1779 1786, Feb 25 an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was the... Cesar-Francois Cassini de Thury 1714, Jun 17 1735 1784 1784, Sep 4 a French astronomer and cartographer. His chief works are: La méridienne de l’Observatoire ... Charles Messier 1730, Jun 26 1744 1785 1817, Apr 12 a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae a... Rudjer Boscovich 1711, May 18 1740 1786 1787, Feb 13 a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit p... Jean Sylvain Bailly 1736, Sep 15 1759 1787 1793, Nov 12 a French astronomer, mathematician, freemason, and political leader of the early part of the Fren... Maximilian Hell 1720, May 15 1756 1789 1792, Apr 14 a Hungarian astronomer and an ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. Hell became th... Benjamin Banneker 1731, Nov 9 1753 1797 1806, Oct 9 a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. His knowledge of astrono... Eise Eisinga 1744, Feb 21 1761 1811 1828, Aug 27 a Frisian amateur astronomer who built the Eise Eisinga Planetarium in his house in Franeker, Fri... Giuseppe Asclepi 1706 1760 186 1776 an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Colle... David Rittenhouse 1732, Apr 8 1750 187 1796, Jun 26 a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrum...
