Piazzi, Giuseppe (1746-1826)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3923. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Ponte di Valtellina, Italy, became a monk, professor of theology and professor of mathematics in Palermo, where he set up an observatory in 1789. Measured the positions of 7646 stars, discovering that the star 61 Cygni had a large proper motion. Because this suggests that the star is nearby, BESSEL chose it to investigate its parallax, making the first successful such measurement. He disc...

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