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Amateur Contributions to Eclipsing Binary Astronomy

Volume 15 number 1 (1986)

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Thomas R. Williams
3621 Wakeforest, Houston,

Abstract

Both theoretical and observational contributions have been made by amateurs to the astronomy of eclipsing binary stars. The specific contributions of John Goodricke and Edward Pigott, J. Miller Barr, and Alexander Roberts illustrate this point.