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Wang Zhenyi was a prominent Chinese scientist, astronomer, and poet who lived during the Qing dynasty in the 18th century. She is most recognized for her practical studies of celestial mechanics, which included physically modeling solar and lunar eclipses using a lamp, a mirror, and a table. Through...
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Annie Russell Maunder was an Irish-British astronomer known for her contributions to solar observation and sunspot research. Working at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, she developed the 1904 butterfly diagram, which plots sunspot latitudes over time to reveal their migration pattern during solar cy...
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Francis Baily was an English astronomer and cofounder of the Royal Astronomical Society, remembered for describing Baily's beads in 1836.
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