Galilei Galileo Galilei Galileo (1564-1642) an Italian physicist and astronomer, was greatly remembered for some very important contributions to astronomy and physics.. http: //library.thinkquest.org/23830/galilei.htm
Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer who became famous by creating precise astronomical measurements of the solar system and more than 700 stars http: //library.thinkquest.org/23830/brahe.htm
Maria Mitchell Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was one of the first famous female astronomers. She was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and went to private schools in her life http: //library.thinkquest.org/23830/mitchell.htm
Edmund Halley Edmund Halley (1656-1742) was a British Astronomer, who was the first to calculate a comet's orbit. He went to the University of Oxford http: //library.thinkquest.org/23830/halley.htm
Historia-Women Scientists in History A site for children, with a lot of images and information about women scientists through history. http: //liquidleaf.com/historia/historia.html
4000 Years of Women in Science The History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century http: //astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html
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