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Who wrote astronomical books in the 19th century and became one of the first women elected to the Royal Astronomical Society?
This must refer to Agnes Clerke. She was born in 1842 in Irelend and spent time as a young woman in Italy. In 1877 she settled in London. She was a skilled astronomical populariser and in 1885 she published a best seller A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Others of her books about astronomy were The System of the Stars (1890), The Herschels and Modern Astronomy (1895), The Concise Knowledge Astronomyco-authored with John Ellard Gore and Alfred Fowler (1898), Problems in Astrophysics (1903) and Modern Cosmogonies (1905). In 1903, with Lady Huggins, she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society, only the third and fourth women to be honoured in this way after Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville. Paul Murdin (Treasurer RAS)
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What awards did Charles Babbage receive?
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He got permission by being chosen by the people of Germany, he was elected with the people knowing that he did not think that Jews should be part of German society.
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What was Mary Somervilles contribution to mathematics?
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Who was the first president to be elected in the 20th century was also president in 1968?
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How many conclaves in this century?
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