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Chideri, Joshua; Chideri, Josua; Childrey, Josua
Bornprobably England, 1622 or 1623
Diedprobably England, 1670
Joshua Childrey wrote the first unambiguous description of the zodiacal light, in his 1661 Britannia Baconica.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Childrey, Joshua. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9037
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