24 November
1639: On 24 November 1639, Jeremiah Horrocks, an English astronomer and clergyman, measured a transit of Venus, the first ever to be observed.Applying Kepler's prediction that in 1631, Venus would ...
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1895: On 25 November 1895, Claude-Louis Mathieu was born.
Mathieu was a French astronomer who worked on the determination of the distances of the stars. He began his career as an engineer, but soon became a mathematician at the Bureau des Longitudes in 1817 and later professor of astronomy in Paris.
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23 November
1935: On 23 November 1935, Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was born.Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew as flight engineer on the Soyuz 7 (1969) and Soyuz 11 (1971) missions. Soyuz ...
22 November
1944: On 22 November 1944, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington died.Eddington was an English astronomer, physicist and mathematician. His greatest work was in astrophysics, investigating the motion, internal structure and evolution ...
21 November
1993: On 21 November 1993, Bruno Rossi died.Rossi was an Italian pioneer in the study of cosmic radiation. In the 1930s, his experimental investigations of cosmic rays and their interactions ...
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