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Thomas Henderson
Astronomer, born at Dundee, astronomer first at the Cape and then Astronomer-royal for Scotland, calculated the distance of the nearest fixed star (Greek: alpha) Centauri and found it nearly 19 billions of miles from the sun.
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- Category: Encyclopedias
- Organization: Project Gutenberg
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