astronomer
astronomer
(Greek: astron, star; nomos, distributing)
The science which treats of the motions, positions, constitution, and relations of the heavenly bodies and of the earth in its relation to them. Valuable contributions to the science have been made by Catholics and other Christians .
CATHOLICS
Giovanni Domenico Cassini
Mary Agnes Clerke
Nicolaus Copernicus
Andrew Claude de la Chevois Crommelin
Francesco Denza
Joseph Epping
Herve Auguste Etienne Albans Faye
Galileo Galilei
Edward Heis
Johann Von Lamont
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier
Giuseppe Piazzi
Lorenzo Respighi
Giovanni Sante Gasparo Santini
Christoph Scheiner, S.J.
Pietro Angelo Secchi, S.J.
Wilhelm Tempel
Francesco de Vico, S.J.
OTHER CHRISTIAN ASTRONOMERS
Johann Bayer
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Tycho Brahe
Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
Johann Franze Encke
John Flamsteed
Sir William Herschel
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Johann Hevelius
Sir William Huggins
Johann Kepler
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Canon A. Stark
New Catholic Dictionary