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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel

A Prussian astronomer of prominent ability, born at Minden; professor of Mathematics at Konigsberg, and director of the Observatory; discovered—what was a great achievement—the parallax of the fixed star 61 Cygne; his greatest work, "Fundamenta Astronomiae," on which he spent 10 years, a marvel, like all he did, of patient toil and painstaking accuracy (1784-1846).

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