George Bishop (21 August 1785, in Leicester – 14 June 1861), was an English astronomer of the nineteenth century. At the age of eighteen Bishop entered...

George Bishop is the name of: George Bishop (astronomer) (1785–1861), British astronomer George Bishop's Observatory, the observatory built by Bishop...

1763 or 1766 – died 14 September 1835) was the first Royal Astronomer of Ireland and later Bishop of Cloyne. He was President of the Royal Irish Academy (1822–35)...

duplicates were ordered for France, Spain and Russia. Bird supplied the astronomer James Bradley with further instruments of such quality that the commissioners...

George Bishop's Observatory (code: 969) was an astronomical observatory erected in 1836 by the astronomer George Bishop near his residence at the South...

explosion. Edward Ozorowski, 83, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop (1991–2006) and archbishop (2006–2017) of Białystok. Jean-François Picheral...

the Younger (1447–1512), who would become Bishop of Warmia and Copernicus's patron; Barbara, the astronomer's mother (deceased after 1495); and Christina...

may have been that George had "threatened to question the legality of the royal marriage" and he may have discovered from Bishop Robert Stillington of...

later Middle Ages; economist, mathematician, physicist, astronomer, philosopher, theologian and Bishop of Lisieux, and competent translator; one of the most...

composer (d. 1652) John Bainbridge, English astronomer (d. 1648) Richard Corbet, English poet and bishop (d. 1635) William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury...

The Astronomer (Dutch: De astronoom) is a painting finished in about 1668 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is in oil on canvas with...

early Christian bishop, the prototype for Santa Claus Saint George, Roman soldier and early Christian martyr Basil of Caesarea, Bishop and theologian Gregory...

Southampton Thomas Wright, astronomer The nearest Met Office weather station to Bishop Auckland is located 8 miles (13 km) north-east of Bishop Auckland in Durham...

emerged about astronomy. One such idea was contributed in 1593 by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who developed a heliocentric model that depicted...

(September 1692 – 13 July 1762) was an English astronomer and priest who served as the third Astronomer Royal from 1742. He is best known for two fundamental...

bishop, president of the Royal Irish Academy and noted mathematician. Robert Perceval Graves (Classics, 1830), Irish biographer and clergyman George Hamond...

Thomas Wright (22 September 1711 – 25 February 1786) was an English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. He was...

line. Dixon was born in Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, County Durham, in 1733, one of seven children, to George Dixon, a coal mine owner, and Mary Hunter...

FitzGerald was consecrated Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1857 and translated to Killaloe and Clonfert in 1862. George returned to Dublin and entered...

3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), astronomer. Martin Rees (born 1942), Lord Rees of Ludlow, current Astronomer Royal George Russell (1857–1951), horticulturalist...

Graeme Garden Edward Pritchard Gee Edward George, Baron George Dick Greenwood Alexander Guttenplan Joseph Hall, Bishop Clare Hammond John Harvard, one of the...

Battle Angel), Oscar winner (1998), cancer. George Mamalassery, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tura (1979–2007), respiratory failure. Stanley...

Γρηγορᾶς, Nikēphoros Grēgoras; c. 1295 – 1360) was a Byzantine Greek astronomer, historian, and theologian. His 37-volume Roman History, a work of erudition...

Bishops Cannings is a village and civil parish in the Vale of Pewsey in Wiltshire, England, 3 miles (5 km) north-east of Devizes. The parish includes...

mathematician Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher Sir George Airy (1801–1895), astronomer, geophysicist Niels Bohr (1885–1962), quantum physicist Subrahmanyan...

Struve (1793–1864), astronomer (Russia) Georg Hermann Struve (1886–1933), astronomer (Germany) Hermann Struve (1854–1920), astronomer (Russia) Ludwig Struve...

(Cratloe, Clare). Arno Allan Penzias, 90, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (1978), complications from Alzheimer's disease....

and Croat humanist, diplomat, Latinist, mathematician, astrologist and astronomer. He served as Archbishop of Esztergom from 1465 until his death. Vitéz...

which would later have a major impact on Christian philosophy. 1210 – The bishops of Paris ban the teaching of Aristotle's natural philosophy at the University...

mathematician and astronomer (d. 998) Abdollah ibn Bukhtishu, Syrian physician and scientist (d. 1058) Abu-Mahmud Khojandi, Persian astronomer and mathematician...