Mathematician and astronomer. Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Earl of Rosse, William Parsons
Amateur astronomer. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951.Born York.
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Sir William Hooker
Botanist. Born William Jackson Hooker at 7 Magdalen Street, Norwich. He collected specimens of mosses from Scotland and Iceland. Became first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1841. Fat...
Person, Gardens / Agriculture, Science, Iceland / Faroe Islands, Scotland
1 memorial
Sir Isaac Newton
Born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, on Christmas day, according to the calendar in use at the time. Â Died in Kensington (where he had gone in search of country air). The exact dates of birth and dea...
12 memorials
1 memorial
John Harrison (clocks)
Inventor of the marine chronometer. Born Yorkshire. Died London. Buried at St John's Church, Hampstead, strangely, since he died in Red Lion Square and had no connections with Hampstead. The pictu...
2 memorials
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