Find out more about the greatest 18th Century Astronomers, including Pierre-Simon Laplace, William Herschel, Benjamin Banneker, Edmond Halley and Patrick Wilson.
Pierre-Simon Laplace23 March 1749, French
Scientist
William Herschel15 November 1738, German, British
Astronomer, Composer
Benjamin Banneker09 November 1731, American
Compiler of Almanacs
Edmond Halley08 November 1656, British
Astronomer
Mikhail Lomonosov19 November 1711, Russian
Scientist, Poet, Geologist, Astronomer
Anders Celsius27 November 1701, Swedish
Astronomer, Physicist, Mathematician
Giovanni Domenico Cassini08 June 1625, French, Italian
Astronomer and Mathematician
Caroline Herschel16 March 1750, German
Astronomer
Charles Messier26 June 1730, French
Astronomer
Johann Heinrich Lambert26 August 1728, Swiss, German, French
Mathematician, Physicist and Astronomer
Joseph Louis Lagrange25 January 1736, French, Italian
Mathematician and Astronomer
Carl F. Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician
Mary Somerville26 December 1780, British, Scottish
Mathematician, Linguist, Translator, Astronomer,
Carl Friedrich Gauss30 April 1777, German
Mathematician, Geophysicist, Astronomer, Science
John Herschel07 March 1792, British
Polymath
David Rittenhouse08 April 1732, American
Astronomer
François Arago26 February 1786, Spanish, French
Astronomer, Mathematician, Physicist, Politician,
Charles Mason31 March 1728, British
astronomer
Ernst Chladni30 November 1756, German
Physicist, Astronomer
Roger Joseph Boscovich18 May 1711, Croatian, Italian
Physicist
David Brewster11 December 1781, British, Scottish
Botanist, Civil engineer, Physicist, Engineer,
Jeremiah Dixon27 July 1733, British
Astronomer
Joseph von Fraunhofer06 March 1787, German
Physicist, Astronomer, Chemist
Nathaniel Bowditch26 March 1773, American
Mathematician, Astronomer, Actuary, Physicist,
Friedrich Bessel22 July 1784, German
Astronomer
John Flamsteed19 August 1646, British
Astronomer
Jean Sylvain Bailly15 September 1736, French
Astronomer
Alexis Clairaut13 May 1713, French
Mathematician
Pierre Louis Maupertuis28 September 1698, French
Mathematician
Nevil Maskelyne
Jean-Baptiste Biot21 April 1774, French
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer, Civil
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Thomas Brisbane23 July 1773, Scottish
Officer
James Bradley29 February 1693, British
Astronomer
Giuseppe Piazzi16 July 1746, Italian
Astronomer, University teacher, Mathematician
Antonio de Ulloa12 January 1716, Spanish
Astronomer, Explorer, Meteorologist
Johann Elert BodeGerman
Charles Marie de La Condamine28 January 1701, French
Explorer
Francis Baily28 April 1774, British
Astronomer
Jérôme Lalande11 July 1732, French
Astronomer
Pieter van Musschenbroek14 March 1692, Dutch
Scientist
César-François Cassini de Thury17 June 1714, French
Astronomer
John Goodricke17 September 1764, Dutch
Amateur astronomer
Jacques Cassini18 February 1677, French
Astronomer
Edward Sabine14 October 1788, Irish
Astronomer
Jean Baptiste Joseph DelambreFrench
John Hadley16 April 1682, British
Mathematician
Joseph Nicollet24 July 1786, French
Geographer
Alexis Bouvard27 June 1767, French
Astronomer
Dominique, comte de Cassini30 June 1748, French
Astronomer
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle04 April 1688, French
Astronomer
Peter Andreas Hansen08 December 1795, German, Danish
Astronomer
John Pond1767 AD, British
Astronomer
Colin Campbell26 January 1752, Jamaican, Scottish
Astronomer
Franz Xaver von Zach04 June 1754, Hungarian
Astronomer
Wilhelm Beer04 January 1797, German
Banker
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander22 March 1799, German
Astronomer
William Cranch Bond09 September 1789, American
Astronomer
Giovanni Battista Amici25 March 1786, Italian
Astronomer
Thomas Brattle20 June 1658, American
Merchant
Johann Daniel Titius02 January 1729, German, Polish
Astronomer
Johann Heinrich von Mädler29 May 1794, German
Astronomer
Heinrich Schwabe25 October 1789, German
Astronomer
Nathaniel Bliss28 November 1700, British
Astronomer
William Rutter Dawes19 March 1799, British
Astronomer
Edward Troughton1753 AD, British
Instrument maker
George Darley1795 AD, Irish
Poet
Alexander Wilson1714 AD, British, Scottish
Astronomer
Christopher Hansteen26 September 1784, Norwegian
Astronomer
Samuel Molyneux16 July 1689, British
Astronomer
William Wales31 January 1734, British
Mathematician
Paolo Frisi13 April 1728, Italian
Mathematician
Wilhelm von Biela19 March 1782, Austrian, German
Military Officer
Giuseppe Campani1635 AD, Italian
Optician
Stephen Groombridge07 January 1755, British
Astronomer
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers11 October 1758, German
Maria Margarethe Kirch25 February 1670, German
Astronomer
Claude-Louis Mathieu25 November 1783, French
Mathematician
Thomas Henderson28 December 1798, Scottish
Astronomer
Johann Bode19 January 1747, German
Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre19 September 1749, French
Mathematician
Minggantu1692 AD, Chinese, Mongolian
Astronomer