Goodricke, John (1764-86)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3659.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3659. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born of English parents in the Netherlands, a deaf-mute, he discovered
in 1782 that Algol, identified as a variable star by G MONTANARI in
1669, was an eclipsing binary and estimated its period. He also
discovered the variability of Delta Cephei....

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