People's Web
These are links to other great web sites about people. But beware: you don't want to get caught in the People's Web! Don't stay away from Windows to the Universe for long!
Tycho Brahe Biography of Brahe.
Copernicus All you want to know about this ancient scientist.
Charles Darwin
Feynman Online! Web site devoted to the physicist, Richard Feynman.
The Galileo Project A great website devoted to a great astronomer.
Stephen Hawking's Universe Ask this scientist your toughest questions!
Island of Freedom An excellent site full of philosophers, poets, and artists.
Sir Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci Museum
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Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer who lived between 190-120 B.C. He is considered the father of trigonometry, a branch of mathematics which studies the angles of sides of triangles. Hipparchus also developed
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James Adamson is an American astronaut who was born in New York in 1946. From 1965-1980, he served with the Army and the Navy. Adamson became an astronaut in 1984. He has flown on two space missions.
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Tom Akers is an American astronaut who was born on May 20, 1951 in Missouri. Before he was an astronaut, Akers was a park ranger, teacher, and Air Force pilot. He has flown 25 different kinds of airplanes.
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Jim Bagian is an American astronaut who was born on February 22, 1952 in Pennsylvania. Before he became an astronaut, Bagian was an engineer and a medical doctor. Bagian became an astronaut in 1980. He
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