Argelander
Americannoun
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“We have this enormous field of view,” said Reiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn in Germany, at the recent press conference.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 8, 2023
The entire heavens has been covered by Argelander in the northern hemisphere, and Gould in the southern—over 700,000 stars in all.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
He went to Germany, then the only country in which astronomy was pursued in its most advanced form, studied under Gauss and Argelander, and took his degree at Göttingen in 1848.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
Modern photometric measures confirm the estimates of Al-Sufi and Argelander.
From Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard Gore
A great deal of thought has been devoted to the measurement of the brightness of stars, but I will only describe one of the methods used, that of the great astronomer Argelander.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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