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  • 81Nancy Cunard — in 1928 Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist. She was born into the British upper class but strongly rejected her family s values, devoting much of her life to fighting racism and fascism …

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  • 82Nasir al-Din al-Tusi — Persian Muslim scholar Naṣīr al Dīn al Ṭūsī The Astronomical Observatory of Nasir al Din al Tusi Title Khawaja Nasir …

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  • 83Alexander MacAulay — Infobox Person name = Alexander MacAulay caption = birth date = birth date|1863|12|9|df=y birth place = death date = death date and age|1931|7|6|1863|12|9|df=y death place = known for = Quaternion advocate occupation = ProfessorAlexander MacAulay …

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  • 84Al-Nayrizi — Abū’l ‘Abbās al Faḍl ibn Ḥātim al Nairīzī (Arabic: أبو العباس الفضل بن حاتم النيريزي‎, Latin: Anaritius, Nazirius, 865–922) was a 9th 10th century Persian mathematician and astronomer from Nayriz, Fars, Iran. He flourished under al Mu tadid,… …

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  • 85Meton of Athens — (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He is best known for calculations involving the eponymous 19 year Metonic cycle which he introduced… …

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  • 86Aaron ben Elijah — (Aharon son of Eliyahu), the Latter, of Nicomedia (אהרון בן אליהו האחרון; born 1328 or 1329 in Nicomedia [http://search.eb.com/eb/article 9003210 Aaron ben Elijah. ] Encyclopædia Britannica . 13 January 2007] ndash; 1369 in Constantinople) is… …

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  • 87Cleomedes — This article concerns the Greek astronomer. For the article on the lunar crater named for him, see Cleomedes (crater). Cleomedes (Κλεoμήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies …

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  • 88Sauerteig — (i. e. leaven ), an imaginary authority alive to the celestial infernal fermentation that goes on in the world, who has an eye specially to the evil elements at work, and to whose opinion Thomas Carlyle frequently appeals in his condemnatory… …

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  • 89Milky Way — This article is about the galaxy. For other uses, see Milky Way (disambiguation). Milky Way galaxy Image of the Milky Way s Galactic Center in the night sky above Paranal Observatory Observation data …

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  • 90Astronomy in medieval Islam — An 18th century Persian Astrolabe, kept at The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge, England. Islamic astronomy or Arabic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the… …

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