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The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.
Ancient Roman astronomers (4 P) Pages in category "Ancient astronomers" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Pages in category "Ancient Greek astronomers" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Revival of Planetary Astronomy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Vol. CS 279. Ashgate. ISBN 0-86078-868-7. Hodson, F. R., ed. (1974). The Place of Astronomy in the Ancient World: A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-725944-8.
Anaximander. The main features of Archaic Greek cosmology are shared with those found in ancient near eastern cosmology.They include (a flat) earth, a heaven (firmament) where the sun, moon, and stars are located, an outer ocean surrounding the inhabited human realm, and the netherworld (), the first three of which corresponded to the gods Ouranos, Gaia, and Oceanus (or Pontos).
He is known to have been a working astronomer between 162 and 127 BC. [3] Hipparchus is considered the greatest ancient astronomical observer and, by some, the greatest overall astronomer of antiquity. [4] [5] He was the first whose quantitative and accurate models for the motion of the Sun and Moon survive.
Marc Davis (1947–) was lead astronomer of a survey of 50,000 high-redshift galaxies; Avishai Dekel (1951–) studied galaxy formation and large scale structure of the cosmos in dark matter-dark energy dominated universes