America was named after Amerigo Vespucci. He was not specifically an astronomer, but he was a navigator, and explorer, who used astronomy to find where he was going.
America was not named after an astronomer. It is believed that America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was an explorer, navigator, and cartographer. For more information, please see the Related Link below.
Amerigo Vespucci was a navigator who used Astronomy, not strictly an astronomer.
It is the gap in the ring system called the Cassini Division, named after the astronomer Cassini.
The astronomer whose treatise was named 'Panchasiddhantika' was Varahamihira, an ancient Indian mathematician and astronomer who made significant contributions to the field of astronomy.
Stöfler is one, named for Johannes Stöffler.
The Greek astronomer, Ptolemy, named the constellation Ara.
Neptune was named after a Roman god, but than name was proposed by a German astronomer.
Galileo
That must be Copernicium.
America got is name from Amerigo Vespucci, who was a financier, navigator, explorer, and cartographer (but NOT an astronomer). Martin Waldseemüller, a German cosmologist and cartographer used a form of the Latin version of Vespucci's name to label the newly discovered lands of the Western Hemisphere.
It is named after the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630).
According to Wikipedia, it is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744).