Name: Man Delin wendelin, godefroy State or Country: Belgium Subject: Astronomers Resume Man Dream (wendelin, godefroy) Flemish astronomer. June 6, 1580 Born in Liege, Belgium near Heer Ken; 1667 and died in Ghent. Man Dream Like many astronomers at the time, is a priest, he was inside the Cathedral Tours will a priest. He repeated attempts Aristarchus * measured distance from the sun, the method is observing exactly half (ie first or last quarter) when the moon and geometric relationships. Observing his observations 比阿利斯塔克 almost two thousand years ago made more precise, he estimated distance from the sun is sixty million miles, is twelve times the values obtained previously Ali Stark. This is still true distance to the Sun than the Earth is short by a third, but it makes a real size human glimpse of the solar system. Half a century later, Cassini * The size of the solar system come to work for a clearer view, this replaces the text Federline results. Vendelin Werner (wendelin werner) was a French mathematician, born in 1968 in Germany, 1977 to obtain French citizenship. International Mathematical Union in 2006 was awarded the Fields Medal, the same year also won the American Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (siam) awarded the Polya Prize. He currently teaches at the South Campus of the University of Paris and the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, either part-time professor |