Astronomers - Scientists

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Advogarius, Petrus Bon(n)us (± 1425-1506) (or Piotro Buono Avogaro or A(d)vogari(o) or A(d)vogarius) Link Link Link Link

Medico, astrologo, nato a Ferrara nella seconda metà del XV secolo. Ivi insegnò astronomia dal 1467 al 1506

Medal 1472. Text: PETUS BONUS AVOGARIUS.FERRARIENSIS.MEDICUS.INSIGNIS.ASTROLOGUSINSIGNIOR. (Petus and not Petrus)

Nicholas (Nikolaus) Copernicus 1473-1543 (Mikolaj Kopernik) Link

Bronze 1931??? (Maximilian Wittmann Munchen) 76.6 mm

bronze 1820 (Durant) 41,5 mm

silver (K. Goetz) 36,1 mm

Tin medal 1873 (Stephan Below) 65.1 mm

1973

Silver (HM) 40.2 mm

1979 - 2000 Zloty Gold

Bronze 1973 (LHE) 69.8 mm

Silver gilt 1970 (Bodlak) 44.7 mm

Hieronymus Fracastorius (1478-1553) (Girolamo Fracastoro) Link Link

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) Link

1595- Vienna - Extremely rare. Only 2 known? Link

Bruno Giordano (1548-1600) Link

Bronze 1889 (Auf die enthullung seines denkmals auf dem Campo de Fiori in Rome) 29.4 mm

Simon Stevin (1548-1620) Link

Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Link

Tin medal Ø 66mm. Obverse G. Galilei ± 1864

16??

1818

Bronze 1975 (Paris Mint) 69 mm

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 Link

1930 (k. Goetz) 36.1 mm

1971 silver (H.F.) 38.9 mm

Silver 1961 (Hanisch-Concee) Weil der Stadt 40 mm

1973 Silver (Bodlak) (mem 1627 Rudolphinischen tafeln) 44.6 mm

Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650) Link

mem sunspots 55x53.9 mm Link Link

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) Link

1818 Bronze medal (Vatinelle)

Ismael Boulliau (Bullialdus - Bouilleau - Boulliaud) (1605-1694) Link Link  

1691

Giovanni Domenico Cassini (Jean-Dominique Cassini 1625-1712) Link

1825

Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) Link

1793

Bronze (Jean Dassier) 42.4 mm

Edmund Halley (1656-1742) Link

Bronze 1910 (Torf) Halley's Comet / Treptow Observatory

Samuel Clarke (1675-1729) Link

Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732-1807) Link

Bronze 1787 (Gatteaux) 42 mm

Joseph Louis Langrange (Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia) (1736-1813) Link

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus (Matthias) Olbers (1758-1840) Link

Silver 1830 (Pfeuffer) - 50 year doctor - 50.4 mm

Hermann Goldschmidt (1802-1866) - John Russel Hind (1823-1895) - Karl Theodor Robert Luther (1822-1900) Link Link Link

Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877) Link

1878 Bronze (Scharff) Director Vienna Observatory

Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877) Link

Planet Vulcanus

Ernst Karl Abbe (1840-1905) Link

Bronze 1919 (Lehnert) Director Jena Observatory 59.8 mm

Theodor Egon von Oppolzer (1841-1886) Link

Mikuláš Konkoly-Thege  (1842-1916) Link Link

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