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Super Reading book "Messier Catalog" of the wise JLComellas, Sirius Publishing Group, 4 th ed. (2008) I am in the introduction to a curious phrase:

"Almost all the great astronomers were long-lived."

And it made me think.

Is it true? Do you have something to do with the longevity to the practice of astronomy? Astronomy practice generates a lot of joy that few can appreciate (depression), is the slow and deliberate observation of the sky (torticollis), the sacrifice of sleep after a comet or a nebula and the watchful eye of an eclipse (alteration of the sleep waking, anger, tendency to officials in) and inherent dismissal and insurance trip looking at the sky (multiple fractures). Skip long cold winter nights (with orange and brandy, as I said Góngora), shivering and with dilated pupils digging the eyepiece of the telescope in the cornea ...

Now, I do not think this is very long-lived. And never mind if you dedicate yourself to smoke a pipe as Edwin Hubble or brown lees as Giordano Bruno (I did roast) or Galileo Galilei (confined at home) and run into the Church.

So I began to calculate:

Astronomer	Age
Aristarchus Samos	80
Hipparchus of Nicaea	70
Ptolemy	70
J. Kepler	59
T. Brahe	65
G. Galilei	78
G. Cassini	87
I. Newton	84
J. Oort	92
N. Copernicus	70
J. Hevelius	75
E. Halley	86
W. Herschel	83
J. Herschel	79
G. Lemâitre	72
C. Messier	87
H. Leavitt	53
E. Hubble	64
C.Sagan	66
S. Chandrasekhar	85
E. Hertzsprung	94

(I hope you ring a few names, though not chronologically)

The list is far less rigorous, but I mean comes 76 years and two months.

Indeed, what we mean by longevity? (Human standards)

- Mr. DRAE:

longevity goes.
(Del lat. Longaevus, long life).
1. adj. Very old or long age.

- Ms. Maria Moliner:

-lived-a (the lat. "Longaevus" cult.)
adj. It applies to the person who has reached old age. * Old.

Come on, nobody dares to give a number to be that of longevity. A turtle is long-lived mayfly water but also can be, depends on who's compare. A tax inspector to reach fifty years of age I seem disgustingly longevity given the work that *.

Could it be that JLComellas feeling betrayed him and he thinks being an astronomer's life would be a long, fruitful and happy? Has not made the mistake of focusing on the great astronomers, chosen at random, or chosen unconsciously, lived well?

I go 76 years and beak, as is the patio, not bad. According to M. would-probably-three-quarters of life.

If anything I say would be long or short-lived your life, never neglect that you can always observe the Messier Catalog objects, gifts immortal in the sky.

* I'll go to hell for this, but I hope to one floor above the Inspectors.