Minutes of the Cincinnati Astronomical Society, July 18, 1843; Frederick Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel: Astronomer and General (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1887), 147; Philip Shoemaker, Stellar Impact: Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel and Astronomy in Antebellum America, PhD thesis (University of W...
Gauss, who as well as being one of the most brilliant and prolific mathematicians and physicists of all time, never turned down an opportunity to experiment, in 1833 wrote to the astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers: “I don’t remember any mention to you about an astonishing piece of ...
Andrew Grey doesn’t fit most people’s idea of an astronomer. He works in a car repair shop, not in a lab or university, yet the Australian repairman discovered a star system hiding in data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Mr. Grey is one of millions of citizen scientists helping ...
For the Constable of Wallingford Castle, see Richard of Wallingford.Richard of Wallingford (1292–1336) was an English mathematician, astronomer, horologist, and cleric who made major contributions to astronomy and horology while serving as abbot of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. Birthplace: Wallin...
William Harkness (December 17, 1837 – February 28, 1903) was an astronomer. He was born at Ecclefechan, Scotland, a son of James (1803–78) and Jane (née Wield) Harkness. His father was a pastor and moved the family to the United States. Harkness served in the military, traveled ...
(1017), he took all the scholars to his capital Ghazni. Al-Biruni spent then his life serving Mahmud and later his son Mas’ud. He was the court astronomer and accompanied Mahmud during the invasion of the north-west of India, living there for a few years [4]. During this time, he...
Dec. 25 (Old Style) (Jan. 4, 1621) they erect the first house frame on Cole's Hill, the hill where they buried their dead the first winter; the Mayflower remains anchored in Plymouth Harbor until next Apr.; the more juicy Massachusetts Bay to the N (future home of Boston) waits ...
in Syria and the old Persian Empire (extending to Afghanistan and western India), and Ptolemy (c. 367–282 B.C.) in Egypt. Since these men took over the largest sections of Alexander’s conquests as if they had been his heirs (though they had no blood relationship to him), they were...
His pupil, Seyyad Hamza, wrote the narrative poem Yusufve Zeliha. The most outstanding representative of Sufi poetry in Asia Minor was a Persian-language poet from Middle Asia, Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–73), who also wrote poetry in Turkish. The traditions established by Rumi were continued...
The physician, mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer Gemma Frisius proposed a method of determining longitude based on the use of accurate chronometers. Abraham Or-telius published his famous atlas, the Theater of the World. The best known of all Antwerp cartographers was Mercator, the ...