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ASTRONOMY

Thomas Wright suggests that the Milky Way Galaxy is a disk-shaped system of Star s with the Solar System near the centre

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BIRTHS

March 16 - Caroline Herschel , astronomer (died 1848 )

Nicolas Francois Appert , French pioneer of Food Preservation by Canning (died 1841 )

Aaron Arrowsmith , English cartographer (died 1823 )

Jean Nicolas Fortin , French physicist and instrument maker who invented a portable mercury barometer in 1800 (died 1831 )

Christian Konrad Sprengel , German botanist (died 1816 )

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