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ASTRONOMERS,
ASTROPHYSICISTS, &
ASTRONAUTS
Albumasar
Buzz Aldrin
William Anders
Archimedes
Neil Armstrong
Benjamin Banneker
Frank Borman
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Tycho Brahe
Annie Jump Cannon
Giovanni Cassini
Anders Celsius
Roger B. Chaffee
Christoph Clavius
Gordon Cooper
Nicholas Copernicus
Jean-Baptiste Delambre
Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Arthur Eddington
Albert Einstein
Camille Flammarion
John Flamsteed
Yuri Gagarin
Galileo Galilei
Geber
John Glenn
Virgil “Gus” Grissom
Fred Haise
Sir Edmund Halley
Caroline Herschel
William Herschel
Johannes Hevelius
Hipparchus
Jeremiah Horrocks
Edwin Hubble
Christiaan Huygens
Hypatia of Alexandria
James Irwin
Mae Jemison
Johannes Kepler
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Jim Lovell
Percival Lowell
Antonio de Marchena
Bruce McCandless II
Maria Mitchell
Jim McDivitt
Pierre Mechain
Charles-Joseph Messier
Maria Mitchell
August Mobius
Isaac Newton
Major Nikolayev
Lt. Colonel Popovich
Ptolemy
Sally Ride
Carl Sagan
Adam Johann Schall
Giovanni Schiaparelli
Maarten Schmidt
David Scott
Harlow Shapley
Alan Shepard
Rusty Swigert
Taqi al-Din
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
James A. Van Allen
Wernher von Braun
Urbain le Verrier
Ed White
Alfred Worden




CALENDARS

Astronomy Calendar
Astronomy Calendars



Solarscope
Solarscope - safely observe the sun




BOOKS ABOUT ASTRONOMERS

Ancient Astronomers
Ancient Astronomers


Kepler's Witch : An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother
Kepler's Witch :
An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother


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Astronomers & Astrophysicists Posters & Prints, pg 3/3
for the social studies and science classrooms.

science > astronomy > astronomers 1 | 2 | 3 < explorers < social studies


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.



Omar Khayyam, Giclee Print
Omar Khayyam,
Giclee Print

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


Antonio de Marchena Friar and Astronomer Who Advised Columbus, Giclee Print
Antonio de Marchena Friar and Astronomer Who Advised Columbus,
Giclee Print


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


Portrait of Pierre Mechain, Giclee Print
Pierre Mechain,
Giclee Print

Pierre Mechain
b. 8-16-1744; France
d. 9-20-1804

Pierre Mechain was a major contributor to the study of deep sky objects.


Portrait of Charles-Joseph Messier 1801, Giclee Print
Charles-Joseph Messier,
Giclee Print

Charles-Joseph Messier
b. 6-26-1730; France
d. 4-12-1817

Charles-Joseph Messier catalogued astronomical objects and numbered them M-1 through M-120.

The Year-Round Messier Marathon Field Guide: With Complete Maps, Charts and Tips to Guide You to Enjoying the Most Famous List of Deep-Sky Objects


Maria Mitchell, Professor of Astronomy, Vassar College, Giclee Print
Maria Mitchell,
Professor of Astronomy,
Vassar College,
Giclee Print

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


August Ferdinand Mobius, German Scientist Professor of Astronomy, Giclee Print
August Ferdinand Mobius,
Giclee Print

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.”

– or–

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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Sir Isaac Newton, 1710, Giclee Print
Sir Isaac Newton,
Giclee Print

Sir Isaac Newton, 1710
b. 12-25-1642; England
d. 3-20-1727; London

• more Isaac Newton posters


Claudius Ptolemaius Alexandrian Astronomer Mathematician and Geographer, Giclee Print
Claudius Ptolemaius,
Giclee Print

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.


Carl Sagan’s Cosmic Calendar Poster
Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar, Poster

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. ...”


Adam Johann Schall German Scholar Astronomer Jesuit Missionary in China, Giclee Print
Adam Johann Schall,
Giclee Print

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.


The Supposed Canals Observed and Drawn by the Italian Astronomer Schiaparelli, Giclee Print
The Supposed Canals Observed and Drawn by Schiaparelli,
Giclee Print

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.


Maarten Schmidt / TIME Cover: March 11, 1966 TIME Magazine
Maarten Schmidt,
TIME Magazine
March 11, 1966

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.


Harlow Shapley / TIME Cover: July 29, 1935 TIME Magazine
Harlow Shapley
TIME Magazine
July 29, 1935

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.


Takyuddin and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman, Giclee Print
Takyuddin,
Giclee Print

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


Urbain le Verrier, French Astronomer, Giclee Print
Urbain-Jean-Joseph
le Verrier,
Giclee Print

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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