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astronomer royal
an honorary title awarded to an eminent British astronomer: until 1972, the Astronomer Royal was also director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory -
herschel
Sir John Frederick William, 1792–1871, English astronomer. -
struve
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von [free-drikh gey-awrk vil-helm fuh n] /ˈfri drɪx geɪˈɔrk ˈvɪl hɛlm fən/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, Russian astronomer, born in Germany. -
aitken
Robert Grant. 1864–1951, US astronomer who discovered over three thousand double stars -
amici prism
a compound prism that spreads out incident white light into a spectrum but produces no deviation of the central color of the dispersed beam. -
anaximander
611–547 bc, Greek philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who believed the first principle of the world to be the Infinite