VI. Data

I. Eureka scientists (n=16)
GMT times are given in brackets, sources are cited last: ABC=American Book of Charts, Gauquelin= 'Birth and Planetary Data Gathered Since 1949', Vol.2 Men of Science 1971 by M&F Gauquelin, AA= the UK Astrological Association's data collection.

BRAHE Tycho 10.47am (09:55) 24/12/1546 NS, 55N40 13E30,ABC.
GALILEO Galilei 3 pm (14:18) 26/02/1564 NS, Pisa 43N43 10E24.
KEPLER Johannes 2.30pm(14.06) 27/12/1571OS (6/1/1572 NS),47N36 7E39
DAVY,Humphrey 5am (05:22) 17/12/1778, 50N10 5W30.
PASTEUR,Louis 2am (01:38) 27/12/1822, 47N08 5E30, Gaug.
ROENTGEN, Wilhelm 16 hrs LMT 27/3/1845, Lennep Rhinel., Bordini.
EDISON,Thomas 11.30 pm LMT 11/02/1847 (5:02 12 Feb),41N188 2W36
BECQUEREL,Henri. 3pm, (14.51) 15/12/1852, 48N52 2E20, Gauq.
TESLA,Nicola'Just after midnight'21/07/1856, 44N35 15E19; ABC.
EINSTEIN,Albert 11.30 (10:50) 14/03/1879, 48N30 10E0; Ebertin.
HEISENBERG, Werner 4.45 MET 5/12/1901 Wurtzburg, Rhodden.
FLEMING, Alexander. 2 am (2:17) 6/08/1881, 55N37 4W18, ABC.
DE BROGLIE,Louis, 1am (00:46) 15/08/1892, Dieppe 49N56 1E05; ABC.
FERMI,Enrico, 7pm (6pm) 29/09/1901, 41N53 12E30. Gauq.
TOWNES,Charles. 5 am EST (10.00)28/07/1915 34N51,82W24 Gauq.
WATSON,James 1.23 am CST (07:23) 6/04/1928, 41N53 87W38, A.A.

Notes:
* Edison's birth time was taken as 11.30 p.m. local time on 11 Feb. 1847 in Milan, Ohio, which is 5.00 GMT on 12 Feb. 1847. This time is given by a) De Lascaut, who is normally regarded as reliable; b) the Circle Book of Charts; c) Cirbels; d) T.Ring, Astrologische Menschenhunde Vol.3,p.539; e) the UK journal 'The Astrologer' in its Feb. 1890 issue, which gave Edison's birth data as 11.33 p.m. local time on the above date. Its authority cited was a 'professor Chaney' who had obtained it from Edison's father. The claim that Edison was born during a blizzard at 3 o'clock in the morning (in 'Thomas A.Edison' by M.C. Nerney) sounded like the sort of myth likely to develop around the birth of an electrical genius (Fowler's Compendium gave 1.30 pm, a printing error for 11.30 pm).
* Galileo's birth date is often taken as 15th February 1564 Old Style; however, it should be a day later, 16th February 3pm GMT 1564 Old Style (N.K., Interface, Astronomical Essays for Astrologers, 1997, 'Galileo's Birthdate') as shown by two horoscopes recognised as drawn up by him for his birth at the National Library, Florence (the two differ by merely half an hour).
* Tesla was born just after midnight on the 9th July 1856 in Croatia. Much of the Balkans was still using the Julian Calendar, but sources (e.g., the Campion Book of World horoscopes) generally concur that for Tesla's birthdate the modern Gregorian calendar was used, and his birthday celebrations in New York in his later years confirm this.
* Eureka scientist Ben Franklin is not included, because his birthdata cited as 17 Jan 1706 NS Boston, 4h44m LMT, is cited by Rhodden as 'dirty data' ie having no known source; likewise Niels Bohr, who has a slight claim to being a eureka-type, 7 Oct 1885 Copenhagen 0h 50m LMT, has the same Rhodden grade (both however have their data given on Niehenke's website, see Ch.5 ref 25).
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II. Non-Eureka Scientists (n=20)
(No eureka moment recorded in their biographies, reliable birth data exist, and they featured in Asimov's Biog. Encyc. Sci. & Tech.)
COPERNICUS, Nicolaus 4.48 pm(15.34) 19/02/1473 OS 53N1,18E37, Gauq.
VESALIUS, Andreas 5.45 LMT (05.27) 10/01/1515 NS.
HOOKE, Robert 12 noon 28/07/1635, Freshwater, IoW; AA. FLAMSTEED, John 7.16 (07.22) 19/08/1646 Derby 52N55, 1W29;AA. HALLEY, Edmond 10.30 am 29/10/1650 OS London.
LAVOISIER, Anton 9.30 am(9.20 GMT) 26/08/1743, Paris, AA.
BODE, Johann 1.15pm (12.35 GMT) 19/01/1747, Hamburg, AA.
BREWSTER, David 12.15 LMT 11/12/1781 Jedburgh, Scot.)
LEVERRIER, Urbain 10am 11/03/1811, 49°N 07' 0°W 04'.
HUXLEY, Thomas.H. 9.30 am 4/05/1825 Ealing 51N30,0W15.AA
CROOKES, William 5.30 pm London 17/06/1832. London
CURIE, Marie 10.36 GMT, 7/11/1867 Warsaw
HAHN, Otto 11.45 LMT 8/03/1879 Frankfurt
JOLIOT-CURIE, F. 9am 19/03/1900 Paris
PAULING, Linus 7.26 PST 28/02/1901 Portland, OR.
SEGRE, Emilo 12.00 (11 am GMT) 1/02/1905 Rome
BETHE, Hans 20.45 2/07/1906 Strasburg
SEABORG Glen 4am CST (10am GMT) 19/4/1912 Ishpemming MI
EHRLICH, Paul 15.20 CST 4/05/1932 Minneapolis
SAGAN,Carl, 22.05 9/11/1934, New York AA

* Inventors
BAIRD, John L., 13 Aug 1888 8.00 Dunbartonshire, 56N1 4W44.
MAIMAN, Tom, 8 am Los Angeles (1600 GMT) 11 July 1972 (from Maiman's
secretary).
MARCONI, Guiglio, 9.15 am (08.25) 25 april 1874, Bologna: Gauquelin.
WRIGHT, Otto 22.36 19 Aug. 1871 Ohio, US
BELL,Alexander 7.12 3 Mar 1847 Edinburgh
MORSE,Samuel 10.30 am (1pm) 27 April 1791 Mass. US
GLASER, Donald 11.30 pm 21 Sept 1926 Cleveland Ohio.

* Others of reliable birthdata:
HAMILTON, William, 3/4 August, 1805, 12 midnight, Dublin (mathematician, with a noted eureka moment).
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried, 1 July 1646 NS, 6.12 pm (17.22) Leipzig.
LOWELL, Perceval, 13 Mar 1855 7.45 LMT 42N21 71W4 (Mark Edmund Jones).
TURING A. 2.15 PM GMT 23 June 1912
WALLACE, Alfred, 2.30am (02.41) 8 Jan 1823, Usk, Monmouth 15N43,2W54.
Newly-found: reliable birth-data & English-language biographies exist for August
Kekule, Baron Cuvier, J.von Leibig & Pierre Laplace.

The Eureka natal group has a 45% excess of septiles and 23% excess of quintiles, while the non-eureka natal group has a 40% deficit of septiles and 13% deficit of quintiles.

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