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| Astronomy |
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| Abbot, Charles Greeley |
| Adams, John Couch |
| Airy, Sir George Biddell |
| Al-Battani |
| Al-Biruni, Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad |
| Albumazar |
| Al-Farghani |
| Alfraganus |
| Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August |
| Aristarchus of Samos |
| Aryabhata |
| Asada Goryu |
| Autolycus, Greek astronomer and mathematician |
| Baade, Walter |
| Bailly, Jean Sylvain |
| Barnard, Edward Emerson |
| Belopolsky, Aristarkh Apollonovich |
| Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm |
| Bode, Johann Elert |
| Bond, George Phillips |
| Bond, William Cranch |
| Bradley, James |
| Brahe, Tycho |
| Brahmagupta |
| Burnham, Sherburne Wesley |
| Cannon, Annie Jump |
| Cassini |
| Celsius, Anders |
| Clark, Alvan |
| Cleomedes |
| Copernicus, Nicholas |
| Darwin, Sir George Howard |
| Delambre, Jean Baptiste Joseph |
| De la Rue, Warren |
| De Sitter, Willem |
| Donati, Giovanni Battista |
| Dreyer, Johan Ludwig Emil |
| Dyson, Sir Frank Watson |
| Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley |
| Encke, Johann Franz |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus |
| Flammarion, Camille |
| Flamsteed, John |
| Freundlich, Erwin Finlay |
| Galileo |
| Galle, Johann Gottfried |
| Ganesa |
| Gill, Sir David |
| Hagen, Johannes Georg |
| Hale, George Ellery |
| Halley, Edmond |
| Herschel |
| Hertzsprung, Ejnar |
| Hevelius, Johannes |
| Hipparchus, Greek astronomer |
| Horrocks, Jeremiah |
| Hough, George Washington |
| Hubble, Edwin Powell |
| Huggins, Sir William |
| Hypsicles of Alexandria |
| Janssen, Pierre Jules César |
| Jeans, Sir James Hopwood |
| Kapteyn, Jacobus Cornelius |
| Keeler, James Edward |
| Kepler, Johannes |
| Kuiper, Gerard Peter |
| Lacaille, Nicolas Louis de |
| Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de |
| Langley, Samuel Pierpont |
| Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de |
| Lemaître, Georges, Abbé |
| Lemonnier, Pierre Charles |
| Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph |
| Lockyer, Sir Joseph Norman |
| Lovell, Sir Bernard |
| Lowell, Percival |
| Maskelyne, Nevil |
| Mayer, Johan Tobias |
| Menzel, Donald Howard |
| Mitchell, Maria |
| Müller, Johannes |
| Newcomb, Simon |
| Olbers, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus |
| Oort, Jan Hendrik |
| Parsons, William |
| Perrine, Charles Dillon |
| Piazzi, Giuseppe |
| Picard, Jean |
| Pickering, Edward Charles |
| Pickering, William Henry |
| Ptolemy |
| Rheticus |
| Ritchey, George Willis |
| Rittenhouse, David |
| Roemer, Olaus |
| Rømer, Olaus |
| Rosse, William Parsons, 3d earl of |
| Russell, Henry Norris |
| Sagan, Carl Edward |
| Scheiner, Christoph |
| Schiaparelli, Giovanni Virginio |
| Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich |
| Secchi, Pietro Angelo |
| Shapley, Harlow |
| Shklovsky, Iosif Samuilovich |
| Sitter, Willem de |
| Slipher, Vesto Melvin |
| Struve |
| Tombaugh, Clyde W. |
| Tycho Brahe |
| Ulugh-Beg |
| Wilson, Robert Woodrow |
| Young, Charles Augustus |
| Zwicky, Fritz |
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