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    eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, and Sarah Greaves. His brothers were Nicholas Greaves, Thomas Greaves and Sir Edward Greaves, physician to...
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    John Greaves (Astronomy Chair, 1643-9) added some of his own papers. Part of the Savilian library might also have come from Dr. Seth Ward (Astronomy Chair...
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  • etc. Ida Greaves (1875–1954), Australian WWI matron Jane Greaves, British astronomy Jimmy Greaves (1940–2021), English footballer John Greaves, English...
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  • archbishop James Ussher, possibly through John Greaves, who knew both men well. Bainbridge died intestate, and Greaves dealt with his estate (Birch, Misc. works...
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  • the West Indies the son of Dr E. C. Greaves, a physician trained at the University of Edinburgh. William Greaves was educated first at Lodge School and...
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  • measure related to modern measures is attributed to Oxford astronomy professor John Greaves (1602–1652), who journeyed to Egypt in 1638 to make measurements...
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  • Colemore, near Alresford, Hampshire. His brothers were John Greaves, Sir Edward Greaves and Thomas Greaves. He studied as a commoner at St. Mary Hall, Oxford...
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    901F. doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01259-3. O'Malley-James, Jack T.; Greaves, Jane S.; Raven, John A.; Cockell, Charles S. (2014). "Swansong Biosphere II: The...
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    he lectured in astronomy from 1939. In 1941 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were William Greaves, Alexander Aitken...
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    by other studies. In September 2020, a team of astronomers led by Jane Greaves from Cardiff University announced the likely detection of phosphine, a...
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    was published by John Greaves in 1650. Qushji's most important astronomical work is Concerning the Supposed Dependence of Astronomy upon Philosophy. Under...
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    (2002). Astronomy: The Evolving Universe (9th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-0-521-80090-7. OCLC 223304585. Rogers, John H. (1995)...
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    Camelopardalis and Gemini)". Astronomy & Astrophysics Supplement Series. 1 (1): 35. Bibcode:1970A&AS....1...35H. Greaves, John; Wils, Patrick (2004). "NSV...
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    College. He appointed John Bainbridge as the first professor, who took up his duties in 1620 or 1621. There have been 21 astronomy professors in all; Steven...
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    Retrieved 14 September 2020. Greaves, Jane S.; et al. (14 September 2020). "Phosphine gas in the cloud decks of Venus". Nature Astronomy. 5 (7): 655–664. arXiv:2009...
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    Henry Stewart Gillson 1912 John Jackson 1913 Hermann Glauert 1914 William Marshall Smart 1919 William Michael Herbert Greaves 1924 Alan Fletcher 1927 Charles...
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    Eiroa, C.; Wyatt, M. C.; Lestrade, J.-F.; Maldonado, J.; Rodriguez, D.; Greaves, J. S.; Montesinos, B.; Mora, A.; Booth, M.; Duchêne, G.; Wilner, D.; Horner...
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    et al. 2008, p. 3. Kaplan et al. 2009. Antoniadis et al. 2013, p. 448. Greaves & Holland 2017, p. 26. Wolszczan 1994, p. 538. Starovoit & Rodin 2017,...
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  • southern extra-solar planets: XXVIII. Two giant planets around M0 dwarfs". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 526: A141. arXiv:1012.1168. Bibcode:2011A&A...526A.141F...
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    robbed; they were presumably still in place by 1646, when John Greaves, professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford in his Pyramidographia, wrote...
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  • ; Su, Kate Y. L.; Chavez, Miguel; Hales, Antonio; Hughes, A. Meredith; Greaves, Jane S.; Corder, Stuartt A. (2020-08-01). "Dust Populations in the Iconic...
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    Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury) (category Savilian Professors of Astronomy)
    with relations of Samuel Ward. In 1649, he became Savilian professor of astronomy at Oxford University, and gained a high reputation by his theory of planetary...
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    (Chinese astronomy) "Triangulum, Constellation Boundary". The Constellations. International Astronomical Union. Retrieved 24 May 2013. Rogers, John H. (1998)...
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    Scaife, A. M. M.; Greaves, J. S. (2018). "Anomalous microwave emission from spinning nanodiamonds around stars" (PDF). Nature Astronomy. 2 (8): 662–667...
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    ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 14503540. Jayawardhana, Ray; Holland, Wayne S.; Kalas, Paul; Greaves, Jane S.; Dent, William R. F.; Wyatt, Mark C.; Marcy, Geoffrey W. (2002)...
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    distribution produced either by one planetesimal belt at 3–21 au (e.g., Greaves et al. 2014) or by two planetesimal belts at 1.5–2 au (or 3–4 au) and 8–20...
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  • Amsterdam 5 November 1998 Science in the 20th century John Gribbin, Visiting Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sussex and consultant to New Scientist...
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    Ancient Egyptian Interconnections. 5–1: 85–89. Tallet 2017. Greaves 1752, pp. 615–623. Wilkinson, John (1835). Topographie of Thebes, and general view of Egypt:...
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  • he was Regius Professor of Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. The first edition of his Text-Book on Spherical Astronomy (later co-authored) appeared...
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    arXiv:astro-ph/0010175. Bibcode:2001AJ....121..525S. doi:10.1086/318050. S2CID 14503540. Greaves, J. S.; Holland, W. S.; Wyatt, M. C.; Dent, W. R. F.; Robson, E. I.; Coulson...
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