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    Annie Maunder

    Mar 24, 2022 3 minutes

    The fundamentals of astronomy for beginners

    This March, English Heritage commemorated the lives of two great solar scientists, Annie Maunder and her husband Walter, by placing a blue plaque on their former home on Tyrwhitt Road in Lewisham, south London. The pair spent decades observing and studying the Sun, even giving their name to a period of low solar activity at the end of the 17th century now known as the Maunder Minimum.

    English Heritage’s blue plaque

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