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Also Known As Georg Joachim Von Lauchen • Georg Joachim De Porris • Georg Joachim Rhetikus • Georg Joachim Rhäticus
Born February 16, 1514 • Feldkirch • Austria
Died December 5, 1576 (aged 62) • Košice • Slovakia
Notable Works “De libris revolutionum…Nic. Copernici…narratio prima…” • “Opus Palatinum de triangulis”
Subjects Of Study Copernican system
Galileo
Galileo
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
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Regiomontanus
German mathematician
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Georg von Peuerbach
Austrian mathematician
August Ferdinand Möbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Möbius
German mathematician and astronomer
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
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Wilhelm Schickard
German astronomer, mathematician, and cartographer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
Italian philosopher
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
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Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
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Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Irish mathematician and astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, marquis de
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
French scientist and mathematician
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician

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Nicolaus Copernicus. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer. In 1543 he published, forward proof of a Heliocentric (sun centered) universe. Coloured stipple engraving published London 1802. De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi.
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