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Astronomer and Vermeer
There is a well-known painting by Johannes Vermeer titled The Geographer, which is often linked to Vermeer's The Astronomer.

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As Chief Astronomer, Zhang Heng earned a fixed salary and rank of 600 bushels of grain ( which was mostly commuted to payments in Chinese coins | coinage currency or bolts of silk ), and so he would have worn a specified type of robe, ridden in a specified type of carriage, and held a unique emblem that marked his status in the official hierarchy.
Astronomer Jean Mueller posing with the Samuel Oschin telescope | Samuel Oschin Telescope ( Schmidt Camera )
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The first Government Astronomer, William Ernest Cooke | W. Ernest Cooke is seated at the left.

Astronomer and by
It was discovered in 1725 and later explained by the third Astronomer Royal, James Bradley, who attributed it to the finite speed of light and the motion of Earth in its orbit around the Sun.
Harrison was introduced to Graham by the Astronomer Royal Edmond Halley who also championed Harrison and his work.
* Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, the main source for his reign, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually called " the Astronomer "
The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
Although Paley devotes a chapter of Natural Theology to astronomy, written by his old friend John Law and the Dublin Astronomer Royal John Brinkley, they did not consider astronomy to provide sound evidence of " designedness.
* September 18 – Great Comet of 1882: Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape, David Gill, reported watching the comet rise a few minutes before the Sun and described it as " The nucleus was then undoubtedly single, and certainly rather under than over 4 ″ in diameter ; in fact, as I have described it, it resembled very much a star of the 1st magnitude seen by daylight.
On 4 March 1675 he was appointed by royal warrant " The King's Astronomical Observator " — the first English Astronomer Royal, with an allowance of £ 100 a year.
* The correspondence of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal compiled and edited by Eric G. Forbes, ... Lesley Murdin and Frances Willmoth.
At this time the king also created the position of Astronomer Royal ( initially filled by John Flamsteed ), to serve as the director of the observatory and to " apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying of the tables of the motions of the heavens, and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting of the art of navigation.
To help others synchronise their clocks to GMT, a time ball was installed by Astronomer Royal John Pond in 1833.
The style is similar to that of two biographies of Louis the Pious: Vita Hludovici Imperatoris, written c. 840 by an unknown author usually called " the Astronomer ", and Vita Hludowici Imperatoris by Thegan of Trier.
The Observatory was opened on 8 October 1929 by the Astronomer Royal Frank Watson Dyson.
The 1995 expansion pack, Dragon's Tower added a playing board, a card tower surmounted by a dragon model, extra rules, a realm die and four additional characters ( including Sorceress and Astronomer ).
Though Airy was " abused most savagely both by English and French " for his failure to act on Adams's suggestions more promptly, there have also been claims that Adams's communications had been vague and dilatory and further that the search for a new planet was not the responsibility of the Astronomer Royal.
First light was on 8 December 1982, and the observatory was officially opened by the Astronomer Royal, Francis Graham-Smith, on 13 June 1984.
Beaufort gave enthusiastic support to his friend, the Astronomer Royal and noted mathematician George Airy in achieving a historic period of measurements by the Greenwich and Good Hope observatories.
Nestling just behind the Observatory is the garden of the former Astronomer Royal, a peaceful secluded space which is good for picnics and also sometimes used by theatre groups ( Midsummer Night's Dream, etc .).
* " The New Amateur Astronomer " by Martin Mobberley-2004-page 21
Brinkley's observations that several stars shifted their apparent place in the sky in the course of a year were disproved at Greenwich by his contemporary John Pond, the Astronomer Royal.
* The Nemesis ( 1839 ) becomes the first iron ship to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, aided by techniques to adjust the compass for the effect of an iron hull developed the year before by George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal.

Astronomer and Johannes
Northern European works include Johannes Vermeer's The Lacemaker and The Astronomer ; Caspar David Friedrich's The Tree of Crows ; Rembrandt's The Supper at Emmaus, Bathsheba at Her Bath, and The Slaughtered Ox.
Astronomer Johannes Kepler soon thereafter begins to employ logarithms in his description of the solar system.
Astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus built astrolabes for Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.

Astronomer and .
Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom.
There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.
From that time until 1972 the Astronomer Royal was Director of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
As Astronomer Royal he receives a stipend of 100 GBP per year and is a member of the Royal Household, under the general authority of the Lord Chamberlain.
After the separation of the two offices the position of Astronomer Royal has been largely honorary, though he remains available to advise the Sovereign on astronomical and related scientific matters, and the office is of great prestige.
There was also formerly a Royal Astronomer of Ireland.
Astronomer Carl Sagan declined to sign the statement.
* 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L ’ Immaculata Concezion.
He presented his ideas to Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal.
* 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
In 1838, Thomas Maclear who was Astronomer Royal at the Cape, repeated the measurements.
On 17 November 1834, the British amateur astronomer the Reverend Thomas John Hussey reported a conversation he had had with French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to George Biddell Airy, the British Astronomer Royal.
In 1850 James Ferguson, Assistant Astronomer at the US Naval Observatory, noted that he had " lost " a star he had observed, GR1719k, which Lt. Matthew Maury, the superintendent of the Observatory, claimed was evidence that it must be a new planet.
Astronomer Georges Forbes concluded on the basis of this evidence that two planets must exist beyond Neptune.
Astronomer Phil Plait takes a similar attitude in his " Bad Astronomy " website, a regular feature of which is reviews discussing the scientific mistakes in popular movies and TV shows.
The Western Australia border has a history with South Australia, involving the South Australian Government Astronomer, Dodwell and the Western Australian Government Astronomer, Curlewis in the 1920s to mark the border on the ground.

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