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Friedrich Bessel

Died on March 17, 1846

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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German:; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by the method of parallax.

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