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+) from 312 to 230 BC
+) astronomer who attempted to calculate the distance between the earth, sun and moon, and was the first greek to believe in the heliocentric model where the solar system is centered around the sun.

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+) from 276 to 194 BC
+) mathematician who had the first successful attempt to establish the size of the earth, and using the post of alexandria and the well at syene, calculated the circumference of earth.

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+) from 190 to 120 BC
+) mathematician who existed before ptolemy and using basic trigonometry, measured the distance between the earth and the moon. he created the astrolabe, an ancient tool holding a small model of the universe.

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+) from 100 to 170 AD
+) believed in the geocentric model, where the earth was the center of the solar system. he was proven wrong, but his findings furthered astronomy.

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+) from 1452 to 1519
+) polymath of italy who made the verdict that the lunar phases came from the light from the sun reflecting on earth's surface. among the most famous intellectuals in history, he is "the renaissance man".

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+) from 1471 to 1543
+) mathematician from poland who came to the conclusion that earth is a planet and proposed a model of the solar system with the sun in the middle.

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+) from 1546 too 1601
+) danish nobleman more accurate than those before him particularly the posistion of mars. brahe created inventions that measured the locations of other celestial bodies and is known for his copper nose prosthetic.

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+) from 1571 to 1630
+) german astronomer who was critical in the scientific revolution of the 17th century for many things, most notably his law of planetary motion.

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+) from 1564 to 1642
+) polymath of italy, father of observational astronomy, modern physics, and the scientific method. using his personally developed telescope he made many discoveries including sunspots, though his most important contributions were the descriptions he made concerning the behavior of moving objects.

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+) from 1643 to 1727
+) english physicist who, at a dinner party, began to wonder why things must fall to the ground and upon further research, discovered gravity.

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+) from 1910 to 2008
+) african american woman from kansas city who aided greatly in the desegregation of stem fields, was a math teacher in Virginia during WW2 and was the first african american supervisor hired by nasa overlooking the west area computing unit.

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+) from 1918 to 2020
+) being born in west virginia, her alma mater was west virginia state college. she aided behind the scenes with her precise math calculations for the apollo 11 mission in which neil armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.

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+) from 1921 to 2005
+) from hampton, virginia, jackson was an advocate for women and other minorities in stem fields and an engineer who extracted data from wind tunnel and flight tests.

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+) from 1942 to the present
+) darden is an aeronautical engineer with an alma mater from the george washington university who wrote the computer program for a sonic boom, leading to sonic boom minimization studies for two and a half decades.