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ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY I STAMPS

from Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue

Aristotle - Spain (1986), Greece 1260
Aristarchus - Greece 1350, 1351
Hipparchus - Greece 835
Zhang Heng - P.R. China 245
Ptolemy - Burundi 433a
Zhang Sui - P.R. China 247
Ulug Begh - Uzbekistan 61, Turkey 2247
Jantar Mantar - Jaipur 52

Copernicus

Poland B127, 885
Vatican 540
DDR 1461
Germany 1104
France 1416

Brahe

Denmark 300, 524
Sweden 2149, 2150

Kepler - Germany 1072
Schickard - Germany 1123
Syzygy - P.R. China 1778

For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY II STAMPS

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Galileo

Czechoslovakia - 1231
Italy 1558, 419-421

Hevelius - Poland 2827, 2828.
Newton - Nicaragua 878#
Le Verrier - France 870

Halley

St Helena 314-316
PRC 2032 (see below)
Great Britain 1133-1136
British Antarctic Territory 129-132
Australia 962

Secchi - Vatican 654-656

Solar flares

Czechoslovakia 1289-90
United States 1107

Eclipse

Mexico 1030
Philippines 2374
France 2735
Mexico 775
Romania 5590
United States 3410a

Quiet Sun - DDR 746

Aurora

Japan 857
USSR 2089
Greenland 43.

Solar wind - British Antarctic Territory 85

For enlarged scans of these stamps, Link to Jeff Miller's Images of Mathematicians on Postage Stamps

Note: The meaning of the symbols on the PRC Halley stamp were explained by Chinese astronomer Zhang Zhousheng at Yunnan Observatory as follows: "The four symbols of the face of the 1986 PRC issue for Halley's Comet as enclosed are Chinese ancient pictures about comets. They are selected from the ancient book copied on silk which be unearthed from the ancient tomb of the West Han dynasty before over 2000 years in Mawangdui of Changshan, Hunan Province. There were 29 pictures about comets in the ancient book. The four pictures which selected on the stamps were named as Red Huan, Li Comet, Qiang Star and Chiyongi from left to right. They show Chinese ancient records about comet which came from before over 2000 years."

ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY III STAMPS

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Hertzsprung - Russell diagram - Mexico C125
Penzias, Wilson - Sweden 1664
Chandrasekhar - Sweden 1662
Fowler - Sweden 1663
Lemaitre - Belgium 1550
Hewish - Sweden 1661
Ryle - Sweden 1665

ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY IV STAMPS

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Zodiac - Sweden 2355
Stellar navigation - Faroe Islands 221
Stonehenge - Great Britain 1339
Telescopes

Joddrell Bank, Great Britain 466
France 1067
Arecibo Radio Telescope, United States 3409f
Mt Palomar, United Srates 966
Hubble Space Telescope, Ireland 833

Cosmos - Germany B855-9
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (with Orion) Japan 1350
Hubble images - US 3384-3388
Saturn - Great Britain 1870a
International Space Year - Australia 1260a
Tonanzintla Astrophysical Observatory inauguration - Mexico 774-776, C123, C124