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5 mag 2024 · Americanphysicist and astronomer, elder brother of W. H. Pickering. As director of Harvard College Observatory, he produced a catalogue of brightnesses for 4260 stars, the Harvard Photometry, in 1884, and extended the work in 1908 with the Harvard Revised Photometry.
As 'the manor in the Marish called Lund,' formerly belonging to Rievaulx Abbey, it was granted in fee in 1544 to Sir Roger Cholmley with Kekmarish, 'Yowe Cott' and 'Newhouse' in Pickering parish. Henry and Richard Cholmley conveyed it to Sir William Belasyse and Henry his son in 1600, and it was still in the hands of this family in 1717 when ...
3 giorni fa · e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and the ...
- 12th century
- Geoffrey V of Anjou
13 mag 2024 · William H. Wright , Lick Observatory director known for his work on radial velocity of stars in our galaxy. Richard Hawley Tucker, who oversaw the study of precise star positions using the Meridian Circle at Lick Observatory, and led observation expeditions in Argentina.
- Jessica Pigza
- 2020
9 mag 2024 · Biography for William Henry Pickering from Western Australia's Biographical Dictionary of Coorow, Carnamah and Three Springs. Farmhand in Coorow.
6 giorni fa · Letters patent, appointing days of payment of the sum of 1,290l. 11s. 10d., due by Sir William Pickering to the Queen, in connection with his mission to King Philip of Spain to receive 3,000 Almaynes for Queen Mary's service in England.
3 giorni fa · Astronomer William Henry Pickering claimed to have discovered another moon of Saturn which he named Themis, but this discovery was never confirmed, and the name Themis was given to an asteroid, 24 Themis. Asteroid 57 Mnemosyne was also named for the Titan.
