|  Owen GingerichOwen
  Gingerich is senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian
  Astrophysical Observatory and Research Professor of Astronomy and History of
  Science at Harvard University. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American
  Philosophical Society, and the International Academy of the History of
  Science. He has written over 500 technical or educational articles and reviews
  and he has written more popularly on astronomy in several encyclopedias and
  journals. His books include The Great <!g>Copernicus Chase: And Other
  Adventures in Astronomical History (1992) and The Eye of Heaven:
  <!g>Ptolemy, Copernicus, <!g>Kepler (1993). 
  
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