Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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A serious candidate for the most unfortunate astronomer of all times. Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière born September 12, 1725
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Chrono Matthias · @chronohh
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is propagating a "people thought he Moon was a giant night-glow frisbee" myth

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Chrono Matthias · @chronohh
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Chrono Matthias · @chronohh
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Girolamo Fracastoro, who gave Syphilis its name, died 6 August 1553, (date of birth unknown!)
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Italian, Renaissance physician and astronomer, Girolamo Fracastoro, who gave Syphilis its name, died 6 August 1553, (date of birth unknown!)
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Astronomers use the Julian Day Count as a unified dating system for astronomical events, it has its roots in the work of the Renaissance polymath Joseph Justus Scaliger born 5 August 1540
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Astronomers use the Julian Day Count as a unified dating system for astronomical events, it has its roots in the work of the Renaissance polymath Joseph Justus Scaliger born 5 August 1540
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Jesuit astronomer-mathematician, Christoph Scheiner, was born 25 July in either 1573 or 1575
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Paolo Amoroso · @amoroso
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In my retroastronomy days I had a job doing guided tours and other astronomy outreach activities at the Brera observatory in Milan, Italy.

The highlight of the tour was the 21.8 cm Merz refractor astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli used for his pioneering observations of the canals of Mars in the late 19th century.

Here's yours truly showing the telescope to a group of visitors in October of 2011.

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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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19th-century French astronomer, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, who was particularly supportive of the ladies in astronomy, was born 11 July 1832

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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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19th-century French astronomer, Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande, who was particularly supportive of the ladies in astronomy, was born 11 July 1832
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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Jesuit astronomer, Christoph Grienberger inventor of the heliotropic telescope was born 2 July 1561
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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The first European printed report on Sunspots, Johann Fabricius' De Maculis in Sole observatis, et apparente earum cum Sole conversione, Narratio, etc. Witebergae, Anno M.DC.XI., was published 13 June 1611
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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The first European printed report on Sunspots, Johann Fabricius' De Maculis in Sole observatis, et apparente earum cum Sole conversione, Narratio, etc. Witebergae, Anno M.DC.XI., was published 13 June 1611
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Chris Walter · @ChrisWalter
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Just in case anyone was thinking of partying it up during the next eclipse, you better follow the rules instead.

themorgan.org/collection/ancie

"people are to remove their headgear and cover their heads with their garments, then wail and cry aloud, begging the gods to save them, their cities, and their shrines"

(The Morgan Library & Museum photo by me)

#historyofastronomy #Astrodon #histodons

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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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17th century pioneering telescopic astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini was born 8 June 1625
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Thony Christie · @rmathematicus
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