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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Adrien-Marie Legendre
French mathematician
Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich
Italian astronomer and mathematician
Jean Richer
French astronomer
Sir George Everest
British geodesist
César-François Cassini de Thury
French surveyor
Edward Sabine
Edward Sabine
British astronomer
William Bowie
American geodesist
Clarke, Alexander Ross
Alexander Ross Clarke
British geodesist
Jean-Charles de Borda
French naval officer and physicist
John Fillmore Hayford
American engineer and geodesist
George Dollond
British optician
Dominique, comte de Cassini
French surveyor and astronomer
Edward Troughton
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