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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 ҁAbbās Wasīm Efendi
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    Chapter 3 Abbo of Fleury
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    Chapter 4 Abbot, Charles Greeley
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    Chapter 7 Abetti, Antonio
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    Chapter 8 Abetti, Giorgio
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    Chapter 9 Abharī: Athīr al-Dīn al-Mufaḍḍal ibn ҁUmar ibn al-Mufaḍḍal al-Samarqandī al-Abharī
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    Chapter 10 Abney, William de Wiveleslie
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    Chapter 11 Abū al-ҁUqūl: Abū al-ҁUqūl Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Ṭabarī
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    Chapter 12 Abū al-Ṣalt: Umayya ibn ҁAbd al-ҁAzīz ibn Abī al-Ṣalt al-Dānī al-Andalusī
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    Chapter 13 Abū Maҁshar Jaҁfar ibn Muḥammad ibnҁUmar al-Balkhi
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    Chapter 14 Acyuta Piṣāraṭi
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    Chapter 15 Ādamī: Abū ҁAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad al-Ādamī
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    Chapter 16 Adams, John Couch
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    Chapter 18 Adel, Arthur
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    Chapter 19 Adelard of Bath
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    Chapter 20 Adhémar, Joseph-Alphonse
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    Chapter 21 Aeschylus
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    Chapter 22 Aḥmad Mukhtār: Ghāzī Aḥmad Mukhtār Pasha
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    Chapter 23 Ainslie, Maurice Anderson
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    Chapter 24 Airy, George Biddell
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    Chapter 25 Aitken, Robert Grant
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    Chapter 26 Albert, the Great
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    Chapter 27 Albrecht, Sebastian
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    Chapter 28 Alcuin
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    Chapter 29 Alden, Harold Lee
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    Chapter 30 Alexander, Arthur Francis O’Donel
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    Chapter 31 Alexander, Stephen
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    Chapter 32 Alfonsi, Petrus
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    Chapter 33 Alfonso X
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    Chapter 35 ҁAlī al-Muwaqqit: Muṣliḥ al-Dīn Muṣṭafā ibn ҁAlī al-Qusṭanṭīnī al-Rūmī al-Ḥanafī al-Muwaqqit
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    Chapter 36 ҁAlī ibn Khalaf: Abū al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmar al-Ṣaydalānī
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    Chapter 38 ҁAlī ibn ҁĪsā al-Asṭurlābī
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    Chapter 39 Allen, Clabon Walter
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    Chapter 40 Aller, Lawrence Hugh
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    Chapter 41 Alvarez, Luis Walter
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    Chapter 42 Amājūr Family
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    Chapter 43 Ambartsumian, Victor Amazaspovitch
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    Chapter 44 Amici, Giovanni Battista
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    Chapter 45 ҁĀmilī: Bahā' al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ҁĀmilī
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    Chapter 46 Ammonius
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    Chapter 47 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae
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    Chapter 48 Anaximander of Miletus
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    Chapter 49 Anaximenes of Miletus
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    Chapter 50 Andalò di Negro of Genoa
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    Chapter 51 Anderson, Carl David
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    Chapter 52 Anderson, John August
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    Chapter 53 Anderson, Thomas David
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    Chapter 54 Andoyer, Marie-Henri
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    Chapter 55 André, M. Charles
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    Chapter 56 Ångström, Anders Jonas
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    Chapter 57 Anthelme, Voituret
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    Chapter 58 Antoniadi, Eugène Michael
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    Chapter 59 Apian, Peter
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    Chapter 60 Apollonius of Perga
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    Chapter 61 Appleton, Edward Victor
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    Chapter 62 Aquinas, Thomas
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    Chapter 63 Arago, Dominique-François-Jean
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    Chapter 64 Aratus
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    Chapter 65 Archelaus of Athens
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    Chapter 66 Archenhold, Friedrich Simon
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    Chapter 67 Archimedes
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    Chapter 68 Archytas of Tarentum
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    Chapter 69 Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August
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    Chapter 70 Argoli, Andrea
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    Chapter 71 Aristarchus of Samos
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    Chapter 72 Aristotle
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    Chapter 74 Arrhenius, Svante August
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    Chapter 75 Āryabhaṭa I
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    Chapter 76 Āryabhaṭa II
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    Chapter 77 Asada, Goryu
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    Chapter 78 Ascham, Anthony
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    Chapter 80 Ashraf: al-Malik al-Ashraf (Mumahhid al-Dīn) ҁUmar ibn Yūsuf ibn ҁUmar ibn ҁAlī ibn Rasūl
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    Chapter 81 Aston, Francis William
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    Chapter 82 Atkinson, Robert d’Escourt
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    Chapter 83 Augustine of Hippo
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    Chapter 84 Autolycus
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    Chapter 86 Auzout, Adrien
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    Chapter 87 Baade, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter
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    Chapter 88 Babcock, Harold Delos
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    Chapter 89 Babcock, Horace Welcome
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    Chapter 90 Babinet, Jacques
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    Chapter 92 Backhouse, Thomas William
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    Chapter 93 Backlund, Jöns Oskar
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    Chapter 94 Bacon, Francis
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    Chapter 95 Bacon, Roger
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    Chapter 96 Bailey, Solon Irving
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    Chapter 97 Baillaud, Edouard-Benjamin
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    Chapter 98 Bailly, Jean-Sylvain
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    Chapter 99 Baily, Francis
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    Chapter 100 Bainbridge, John
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    Chapter 101 Baize, Paul-Achille-Ariel
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    Chapter 102 Baker, James Gilbert
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    Chapter 103 Baldwin, Ralph Belknap
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    Chapter 104 Ball, Robert Stawell
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    Chapter 105 Balmer, Johann Jakob
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    Chapter 106 Banachiewicz, Thaddeus Julian
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    Chapter 107 Lassell, William
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    Chapter 108 Banū Mūsā
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    Chapter 109 Bar Ḥiyya: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya Savasorda
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    Chapter 110 Bär, Nicholaus Reymers
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    Chapter 111 Barbier, Daniel
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    Chapter 112 Barhebraeus: Gregory Abū al-Faraj
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    Chapter 113 Barker, Thomas
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    Chapter 114 Barnard, Edward Emerson
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    Chapter 115 Barnothy Forro, Madeleine
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    Chapter 116 Barnothy, Jeno M.
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    Chapter 117 Barozzi, Francesco
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    Chapter 118 Barringer, Daniel Moreau
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    Chapter 119 Bartholin, Erasmus
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    Chapter 120 Bartholomaeus Anglicus
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    Chapter 121 Bartsch, Jakob
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    Chapter 122 Bates, David Robert
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    Chapter 123 Bateson, Frank Maine
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    Chapter 125 Baxendell, Joseph
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    Chapter 126 Bayer, Johann
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    Chapter 127 Beals, Carlyle Smith
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    Chapter 128 Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond
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    Chapter 129 Bečvář, Antonín
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    Chapter 130 Bede
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    Chapter 132 Behaim, Martin
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    Chapter 133 Belopolsky, Aristarkh Apollonovich
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    Chapter 134 Ben Solomon: Judah ben Solomon ha-Kohen
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    Chapter 135 Bennot, Maude Verona
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    Chapter 136 Benzenberg, Johann Friedrich
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    Chapter 137 Bergstrand, Östen
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    Chapter 138 Berman, Louis
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    Chapter 139 Bernard of Le Treille
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    Chapter 141 Bernoulli, Jacob
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    Chapter 142 Bernoulli, Johann III
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    Chapter 143 Berossus
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    Chapter 144 Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
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    Chapter 145 Bethe, Hans Albrecht
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    Chapter 146 Bevis, John
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    Chapter 147 Beyer, Max
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    Chapter 149 Bhāskara II
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    Chapter 150 Bianchini, Francesco
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    Chapter 151 Bickerton, Alexander William
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    Chapter 152 Biela, Wilhelm Freiherr von
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    Chapter 153 Biermann, Ludwig Franz Benedikt
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    Chapter 154 Bigourdan, Camille Guillaume
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    Chapter 157 Biot, Jean-Baptiste
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    Chapter 159 Birkeland, Kristian Olaf Bernhard
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    Chapter 161 Birmingham, John
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    Chapter 221 Burnham, Sherburne Wesley
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    Chapter 290 Clerke, Agnes Mary
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    Chapter 440 Fath, Edward Arthur
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    Chapter 523 Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee
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    Chapter 531 Gore, John Ellard
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    Chapter 828 Lassell, William
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    Chapter 859 Lockyer, Joseph Norman
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    Chapter 912 Maunder, Annie Scott Dill Russell
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    Chapter 932 Méchain, Pierre-François-André
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    Chapter 1046 Palisa, Johann
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    Chapter 1107 Pogson, Norman Robert
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    Chapter 1434 Wachmann, Arno Arthur
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    Chapter 6011 Bernoulli, Daniel
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    Chapter 9001 Abbe, Cleveland
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    Chapter 9002 Abbott, Francis
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    Chapter 9003 Abd al-Wājid: Badr al-Dīn ҁAbd al-Wājid [Wāḥid] ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī
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    Chapter 9004 Achilles Tatius
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    Chapter 9005 Adams, Walter Sydney
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    Chapter 9006 Adrastes of Aphrodisias
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    Chapter 9007 Althans, Karl Ludwig
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    Chapter 9008 Alfvén, Hannes Olof Gösta
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    Chapter 9009 Ananias of Sirak
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    Chapter 9010 Aristyllus
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    Chapter 9011 Ashbrook, Joseph
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    Chapter 9013 Bache, Alexander Dallas
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    Chapter 9014 Barabashov, Nikolai Pavlovich
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    Chapter 9015 Battānī: Abū ҁAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Jābir ibn Sinān al-Battānī al-Ḥarrānī al-Ṣābi’
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    Chapter 9017 Bayly, William
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    Chapter 9018 Beer, Wilhelm
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    Chapter 9019 Bhāskara I
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    Chapter 9020 Bhattotpala
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    Chapter 9021 Biancani, Giuseppe
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    Chapter 9042 Crommelin, Andrew Claude de la Cherois
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    Chapter 9195 Ashe, Edward David
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    Chapter 9215 Aganice of Thessaly
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    Chapter 9216 Aldrich, Loyal Blaine
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    Chapter 9217 Ames, Adelaide
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    Chapter 9218 Anderson, Wilhelm Robert Karl
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    Chapter 9219 Apian, Philipp
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    Chapter 9220 Apollonius of Myndos
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    Chapter 9222 Bauschinger, Julius
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    Chapter 9224 Baxandall, Frank Edward
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    Chapter 9225 Becker, Friedrich
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    Chapter 9226 Becker, Ludwig Wilhelm Emil Ernst
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    Chapter 9227 Becker, Wilhelm
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    Chapter 9229 Benoist, Michel
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    Chapter 9231 Bellarmine, Robert Francis Romulus Cardinal [Saint]
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    Chapter 9242 Barney, Ida M.
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    Chapter 9339 Stibbs, Douglas Walter Noble
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    Chapter 9396 Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
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    Chapter 100001 a Çamora
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    Chapter 100002 ab Hayck, Tadeá
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    Chapter 100003 Abī al-Fatḥ al-Ṣufi
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    Chapter 100004 Abī al-Shukr
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    Chapter 100005 Abubacer
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    Chapter 100006 Adrastus of Aphrodisias
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    Chapter 100007 Aegidius Colonna [Columna]
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    Chapter 100008 Aegidius Romanus
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    Chapter 100009 Agecio, Tadeá
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    Chapter 100010 Aglaonike
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    Chapter 100011 al-Bannā’
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    Chapter 100012 Albategnius [Albatenius]
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    Chapter 100013 Albertus Blar de Brudzewo
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    Chapter 100014 Albertus Magnus
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    Chapter 100015 Albumasar
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    Chapter 100016 Albuzale
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    Chapter 100017 Alcabitius
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    Chapter 100018 Alchvine
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    Chapter 100019 Alfarabius
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    Chapter 100020 Alfonso el Sabio
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    Chapter 100021 Alfonso the Learned
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    Chapter 100022 Alfonso the Wise
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    Chapter 100023 al-Hā’im
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    Chapter 100024 al-Haytham
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    Chapter 100025 Alhazen
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    Chapter 100026 Alighieri, Dante
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    Chapter 100027 ҁAlī ibn Khalaf ibn Aḥmar Akhīr [Akhiyar or Akhyar]
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    Chapter 100028 al-Kammād
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    Chapter 100029 al-Khatīb al-Umawī al-Qurṭubī
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    Chapter 100030 al-Majdī
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    Chapter 100031 Alpetragius
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    Chapter 100032 al-Raqqām
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    Chapter 100033 al-Ṣaffār
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    Chapter 100034 al-Samḥ
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    Chapter 100035 al-Shāṭir
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    Chapter 100036 Angelus
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    Chapter 100037 Āryabhaṭa the Elder
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    Chapter 100038 Āryabhaṭa the Younger
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    Chapter 100039 Askham, Anthony
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    Chapter 100040 Asten, Friedrich Emil, von
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    Chapter 100041 Aurelianus Augustinus
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    Chapter 100042 Auwers, Arthur Julius Georg Friedrich von
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    Chapter 100043 Avempace
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    Chapter 100044 Averroes
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    Chapter 100045 Avicenna
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    Chapter 100046 Azarquiel
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    Chapter 100047 Bājja
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    Chapter 100048 Baron Blackett of Chelsea
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    Chapter 100049 Baron Kelvin of Largs
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    Chapter 100050 Bartschius
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    Chapter 100051 Baṣo
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    Chapter 100052 Basṭūlus
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    Chapter 100053 Baume Pluvinel, Aymar Eugène de la
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    Chapter 100054 Bayley, William
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    Chapter 100055 Bellarmino
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    Chapter 100056 Bernardus de Trilia
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    Chapter 100057 Bernardus Silvestris
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    Chapter 100058 Bernoulli, Jacques
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    Chapter 100059 Bernoulli, James
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    Chapter 100060 Betz, Martha
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    Chapter 100061 Bevans, John
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    Chapter 100062 Bhatta Utpala
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    Chapter 100063 Billy, Jacques de
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Chapter title
Lassell, William
Chapter number 107
Book title
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers
Published by
Springer New York, September 2014
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_107
Book ISBNs
978-1-4419-9916-0, 978-1-4419-9917-7
Authors

Robert J. Hurry

Editors

Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché II, JoAnn Palmeri, Daniel W. E. Green