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Nathaniel Bliss
1700 – 1764
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryNathaniel Bliss was an English astronomer who served as the Astronomer Royal from 1762 to 1764. Bliss 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.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
November 28, 1700
Bisley
Date of death
September 2, 1764
Oxford
Citizenship
Kingdom of Great Britain
Occupations & fields
mathematicianastronomeruniversity teacher
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal Society
- Field and occupation
- anglický astronóm
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