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There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.
Otto E. Neugebauer
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Otto E. Neugebauer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1899
Born: May 26
Died: 1990
Died: February 19
Astronomer
Historian Of Mathematics
Historian Of Science
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Innsbruck Stadt
Otto Eduard Neugebauer
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