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Sir George Airy

James Bradley

Captain Cook and the 1769 transit of Venus

Sir David Gill

John Goodricke

Charles Green (astronomer on Capt. Cook’s first voyage)

Edmond Halley

John Harrison’s chronometer

Stephen Hawking

Caroline Herschel

William Herschel

Antony Hewish (Nobel Prize)

Sir William Huggins

Jodrell Bank

Isaac Newton

Ernst Öpik

Sir Martin Ryle (Nobel Prize)

Sir Harold Spencer Jones

Stonehenge

William Wales (astronomer on Capt. Cook’s second voyage)


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