Astronomer. The fourth Astronomer Royal 1762-64. Studied at Oxford University and later became the Savilian Professor of Geometry. He made important meridian observations of a comet and a solar eclipse visible from Greenwich, and many of his observations proved useful in solving the longitude problem, and were bought by the Board of Longitude after his death.
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Nathaniel Bliss
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Optician, known for his successful optics business and his patenting and commercialization of achromatic doublets. The business, founded in 1750, became Dollond & Aitchison in 1927, and was su...
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