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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Quotes

1784–1846 Germany

Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist who determined the first accurate distance to a star via stellar parallax.

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Mathematics is after all the most agreeable science; for me, it and astronomy take the place of dance parties, concerts, and other such amusements, which I only know by name.

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