Romney Marsh
Romney Marsh , region, c.70 sq mi (180 sq km), Kent, SE England, extending c.9 mi (15 km) inland. A former coastal marsh, the region has been wholly reclaimed to provide fertile pastureland. Romney Marsh sheep are well known.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/2/1999; 477 words
; ...painter, 1652; General Jean- Victor Marie Moreau, soldier, 1813; Thomas Telford, civil engineer, 1834; Johann Franz Encke, astronomer, 1865; Sir William Rowan Hamilton, astronomer, 1865; Henri Rousseau, primitive painter, 1910...
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/2/1996; 680 words
; ...Lo Spagnoletto"), painter, 1652; Thomas Telford, civil engineer, 1834; William Nicol, physicist, 1851; Johann Franz Encke, astronomer, 1865; Sir William Rowan Hamilton, astronomer, 1865; Henri Rousseau, primitive painter, 1910...
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Johann Franz Encke
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Johann Franz Encke , 1791-1865, German astronomer. He was assistant (1816-22) and...his discovery of the division in Saturn 's A ring that bears his name. Encke's comet (discovered by J. L. Pons in 1818) was named for him because...
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Encke, Johann Franz
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Encke, Johann Franz ( b . Hamburg, Germany, 23 September 1791; d . Spandau...The eighth child of a Lutheran preacher, J. Michael Encke, and his wife, M. Elisabeth Misler, Encke displayed an early interest in mathematics but did not...
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Backlund, Jöns Oskar
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...research was comet 1786 I, known as Encke ’ s comet or (in the U.S.S.R.) comet Encke-Backlund. Despite its forty...Backlund was the third man, following Johann Franz Encke and Friedrich Emil von Asten, to...
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Arrest, Heinrich Louis D’
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...for discovering the comet 1845 I), when Johann Gottfried Galle got permission from Johann Franz Encke, director of the Berlin Observatory, to...but in making the initial announcement Encke mentioned only his staff member Galle and...
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Saturn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...third, faint inner crepe ring (denoted C). The Encke Division, or Encke Gap, which splits the A ring, is named after the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke , who discovered it in 1837. Pictures from the...
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