after, duplicates were ordered for France, Spain and Russia. Bird supplied the astronomer James Bradley with further instruments of such quality that the...
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comedian John Bird (astronomer) (1709–1776), British astronomer and instrument designer John Bird (bishop) (died 1558), British Bishop of Chester John Bird, Baron...
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comedian John Bird (artist) (1766–1829), Welsh landscape artist John Bird (astronomer) (1709–1776), British astronomer and instrument designer John Bird (bishop)...
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Pierre Charles Le Monnier (category 18th-century French astronomers)
French astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Lemonnier. Le Monnier was born in Paris, where his father Pierre (1675–1757), also an astronomer, was...
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List of minor planet discoverers (redirect from John Gross (astronomer))
of the following fields: Astronomers and Institutions: links to the corresponding article about the discovering astronomer or institution on Wikipedia...
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Jeremiah Dixon (category 18th-century British astronomers)
mathematician William Emerson, and astronomers John Bird and Thomas Wright. It was probably the astronomer John Bird, an active Fellow of the Royal Society...
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mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchiston. His Latinized name was Ioannes Neper. John Napier is best known as the discoverer...
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Gregory FRS (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling...
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asked whether an astrologer could draw up a horoscope for the eggs in a bird's nest? Christopher Heydon responded with A Defence of Judicial Astrology...
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was James Ferguson FRS, a Scottish astronomer and probable acquaintance of Joseph Wright (both were friends of John Whitehurst). Ferguson noted that a...
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