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Astronomers & Astrophysicists Posters & Prints, pg 3/3
for the social studies and science classrooms.
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Page 3 of astronomers, astrophysicists and related astronomy posters, prints and photographs: Omar Khayyam, Antonio de Marchena, Pierre Mechain, Charles-Joseph Messier, Maria Mitchell, August Mobius, Isaac Newton, Claudius Ptolemy, Carl Sagan, Adam Johann Schall, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Maarten Schmidt, Harlow Shapley, Taqi al-Din (Taklyuddin), James A. Van Allen and Urbain le Verrier.
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Omar Khayyam
b. 5-18-1048; Iran
d. 1131
Omar Khayyám was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer best remembered in the West for his Rubaiyat. Rubaiyat is a word derived from the Arabic root word for “4”, and meaning a ruba'i or two line stanza with two parts per line.
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou ...
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Antonio de Marchena was considered by Christopher Columbus to be his only loyal supporter in the royal court of Ferdinand and Isabella - “Your majesties know that I spent seven years in the court pestering you for this; never in the whole time was there found a pilot, nor a sailor, nor a mariner, nor a philosopher, nor an expert in any other science who did not state that my enterprise was false, so I never found support from anyone, save father Friar Antonio de Marchena, beyond that of eternal God.” The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
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Pierre Mechain
b. 8-16-1744; France
d. 9-20-1804
Pierre Mechain was a major contributor to the study of deep sky objects.
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Maria Mitchell
b. 8-1-1818; Nantucket, MA
d. 6-28-1889; Lynn, MA
Maria Mitchell, who became the first woman member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1848 and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1850, first gained international attention for discovering a comet (Comet 1847 VI or C/1847 T1) in the fall of 1847 and winning a prize offered by King Frederich VI of Denmark.
Mitchell later worked at the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office and in 1865 became professor of astronomy at Vassar College, the first person (male or female) appointed to the faculty; she was also named as Director of the Vassar College Observatory. When Mitchell learned that despite her tenure, reputation and experience, her salary was less than many younger male professors, she insisted on a salary increase, and got it.
FYI - Mitchell, who was a distant cousin of Benjamin Franklin, also travelled to Europe with Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family.
• Maria Mitchell in Women of Science Composite poster
• Maria Mitchell: A Life in Journals and Letters
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August Ferdinand Mobius,
b. 10-24-1790; Germany
d. 9-26-1868
Mobius, a professor of astronomy, is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, “a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.”
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A Möbius strip is a two-dimensional surface with only one side. To construct a Möbius strip in three dimensions take a rectangular strip of paper and mark point A on one end and point B on the other, give the strip a half twist (180º) and join the two ends together. It is now possible to start at a point A on the surface and draw a line along the length of the strip that passes through the point which is apparently on the other side of the surface from A.
• The Mobius Strip: Dr. August Mobius's Marvelous Band in Mathematics, Games, Literature, Art, Technology, and Cosmology
• M. C. Escher “Ants” on a Mobius Strip, poster
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Claudius Ptolemy (fl. 90-168 AD) was a Greek or Hellenized Egyptian mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer in Alexandria, Roman Egypt.
Claudius Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (Greek tetra=four + biblos=books) was the most popular astrological work of antiquity.
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Carl Sagan
b. 11-9-1934; Brooklyn, NY
d. 12-20-1996
Carl Sagan popularized astronomy with his PBS program Cosmos, and his novel “Contact” was the basis of a movie by the same name.
• You Are Here: “Look at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. ...”
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Johann Adam Schall von Bell
b. 1591; Germany
d. 8-15-1666; China
Johann Adam Schall von Bell was a Jesuit missionary to China where the emperor appointed him to a post in the Chinese observatory in connection to mathematics and predicting celestial events.
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Giovanni Schiaparelli
b. 3-14-1835; Italy
d. 7-4-1910
Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli was the first to show that the Perseid and Leonid meteor showers were associated with comets. He also observed Mars and believed he saw “seas” and “continents”; he named the long straight formations canali in Italian. Years later the “canals” were shown to be an optical illusion.
Schiaparelli studied at the University of Turin.
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Maarten Schmidt
b. 12-28-1929; The Netherlands
Maarten Schmidt measured the distances of quasars (QUASi-stellAR radio source), extremely bright and distant active galactic nucleus.
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Harlow Shapley
b. 11-2-1885; Nashville, MO
d. 10-20-1972
Harlow Shapley was one of the first astronomers to realize the Milky Way Galaxy was larger than previously thought and the Earth's Sun was in a “nondescript” area of the galaxy. He was one of the participants in the “Great Debate” of 1920 on the nature of nebulas.
Shapley had dropped out of school with a 5th grade education, but studied at home and went back to high school to become the class valedictorian. He then went to the University of Missouri, ending up with an astronomy degree. Eventually he became head of Harvard University Observatory and was also a victim of McCarthyism.
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Taqi al-Din
(c.1526 - 1585)
Taqi al-Din (Takiyuddin) and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman.
• Middle East posters
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Urbain le Verrier
b. 3-11-1811; France
d. 9-23-1877
Urbain le Verrier, whose mathematical work was in celestial mechanics, is best known for his participation in the discovery of Neptune and as head of the Paris Observatory. Celestial mechanics deals with the motion and gravitational effects of celestial objects.
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