Bessel Friedrich Wilhelm Definition
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Prussian astronomer who recalculated the orbit of Halley's comet (1804), used parallax to measure the distance from Earth to the twin star 61 Cygni (1838), and developed a class of mathematical functions based on his study of planetary perturbation.
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