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Richard Hinckley Allen (1838, Buffalo, New York – 1908, Northampton, Massachusetts) was a gifted polymath and amateur naturalist; his wide range of interests caused his friends to nickname him "the walking encyclopedia."
Hinckley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alonzo A. Hinckley (1870–1936), ... Richard Hinckley Allen (1838–1908), American astronomer;
Allen played for Hinckley Athletic and Leicester City before joining Fourth Division side Port Vale in May 1980. [1] He earned a first-team place for the start of the 1980–81 season, and scored his first goal in the Football League on 20 September, in a 4–2 win over Darlington at Vale Park. [1]
Arthur Huntington Allen (1851–1923), a Presbyterian minister who married Agnes Crosby (1858–1891), daughter of the Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, Chancellor of New York University. [5] In 1866, three members of Allen's family sailed for Europe. Allen was not able to join them until 1868, and died in Sweden in 1869. Allen was a Presbyterian Church ...
The Coalsack Nebula was juxtaposed in 1899 by Richard Hinckley Allen through naming the Northern Coalsack Nebula. [4] The Coalsack Nebula covers nearly 7° by 5° and extends into the neighboring constellations Centaurus and Musca. [5] The first observation was reported by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón in 1499. [6]
The book Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning by R. H. Allen (1899) [9] has had effects on star names: It lists many Assyrian/Babylonian and Sumerian star names recovered by archaeology, and some of these (e.g. Sargas and Nunki) have since been approved by the IAU WGSN. [2]
Bellatrix was also called the Amazon Star, which Richard Hinckley Allen proposed came from a loose translation of the Arabic name Al Najīd, the Conqueror. [14] A c.1275 Arabic celestial globe records the name as المرزم "the lion". [32] Bellatrix is one of the four navigational stars in Orion that are used for celestial navigation. [33]
[1] According to 19th-century amateur astronomer Richard Hinckley Allen, the chief stars in Lynx "might well have been utilized by the modern constructor, whoever he was, of our Ursa Major to complete the quartette of feet."