Henderson, Thomas

Henderson, Thomas, astronomer, born at Dundee, astronomer first at the Cape and then Astronomer-royal for Scotland, calculated the distance of the nearest fixed star [Greek: alpha] Centauri and found it nearly 19 billions of miles from the sun.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Henderson, Alexander * Hengist and Horsa
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Helst, Bartholomæus van der
Helvellyn
Helvetii
Helvétius
Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
Hénault
Hemel Hempstead
Hems
Hemsterhuis
Henderson, Alexander
Henderson, Thomas
Hengist and Horsa
Hengstenberg
Henley, William Ernest
Henley-on-Thames
Henotheism
Henrietta Maria
Henrietta Maria
Henriot
Henry I.
Henry II.

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