http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2298/2298-h/2298-h.htm
by SIR ROBERT S. BALL, 1895
Great Astronomers
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Céline Richard
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Re: Great Astronomers
Hi Deeby !
Thank you a lot!!!
Your book is so full of informations about History of Sciences, it is a really great project
I have read just some parts of this huge online book.
I join a picture i have taken, last September, showing a statue of one of the great scientists your book is about Le Verrier.
Like many other great scientists, he wasn't just an astronomer.
Indeed, Le Verrier, who discovered Neptune, also was meteorologist and politician. I know François Arago (1786/1853) was a French astronomer, a physician and a politician. Avicenne (980/1037) was a Persian philosopher, a writer, and a doctor. Giordano Bruno (1548/1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, a philosopher, a mathematician and an astronomer, burned at stake for heresy: he pretended there was an inifity of inhabited worlds, other than the Earth, in the Universe...
Those scientists didn't belonged to the same century, neither to the same region of the world, but iwe can notice it was possible to be very polyvalent at those times. By now, science becomes more and more accurate. We can hardly seriously both study and work so different fields, although we can be interested in various ones.
Have a very good day!
Thank you
Céline
Thank you a lot!!!
Your book is so full of informations about History of Sciences, it is a really great project
I have read just some parts of this huge online book.
I join a picture i have taken, last September, showing a statue of one of the great scientists your book is about Le Verrier.
Like many other great scientists, he wasn't just an astronomer.
Indeed, Le Verrier, who discovered Neptune, also was meteorologist and politician. I know François Arago (1786/1853) was a French astronomer, a physician and a politician. Avicenne (980/1037) was a Persian philosopher, a writer, and a doctor. Giordano Bruno (1548/1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, a philosopher, a mathematician and an astronomer, burned at stake for heresy: he pretended there was an inifity of inhabited worlds, other than the Earth, in the Universe...
Those scientists didn't belonged to the same century, neither to the same region of the world, but iwe can notice it was possible to be very polyvalent at those times. By now, science becomes more and more accurate. We can hardly seriously both study and work so different fields, although we can be interested in various ones.
Have a very good day!
Thank you
Céline
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harry
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Re: Great Astronomers
Hello
I sometimes use my Dad's link to read some of the info.
Thank you for the information, I can use it for school.
Great people and great thinkers
I sometimes use my Dad's link to read some of the info.
Thank you for the information, I can use it for school.
Great people and great thinkers
Harry : Smile and live another day.
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Re: Great Astronomers
Yes many modern times Astronomers have brought many discoveries to us, but I would have to say that the greatest astronomers would have to be the "ancient" ones such as Claudius Ptolemaeus. As for modern times, I would have to say Carl Sagan would be the most important astronomer/astrophysicist/many more other things persona.
More information on them:
Sagan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
http://www.crystalinks.com/sagan.html
http://www.carlsagan.com/
(Many more!)
Ptolemaeus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Bio ... emy/1.html
http://arnett.us.com/psc/theman.html
(Many more!)
More information on them:
Sagan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan
http://www.crystalinks.com/sagan.html
http://www.carlsagan.com/
(Many more!)
Ptolemaeus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Bio ... emy/1.html
http://arnett.us.com/psc/theman.html
(Many more!)