Astronomers

My latest series of sculptures

are abstract pieces 

named after famous astronomers.

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Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a 16th century astronomer who discovered that the planets 

followed an elliptical orbit around the sun.

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Herschel

William Herschel is known for his discovery of the planet Uranus 

and many nebulae and other celestial bodies.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian mathematician 

and astronomer of the 2nd century AD.

He first described the solar system as a series of nested spheres.

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Galileo

 Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer.

He is known as the father of modern astronomy.

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Sagan

 Carl Sagan was a twentieth century American astronomer who was active in the search for extraterrestrial life and contributed to most of the space missions 

to Mars and the outer planets.

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