The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 86
ke himself, Nathaniel Bliss, was a gentleman, ofBisley, Gloucestershire. Bliss graduated at Pembroke College, Oxford, asB.A. in 1720, and M.A. in 1723. He became theRector of St. Ebbs, Oxford, in 1736, and on Halleysdeath succeeded him as Savilian Professor of Geo-metry. He supplied Bradley with… … Mtf( Mb JJt. ° Of,,/, qG%, tJ*f- o~a . ■ NATHANIEL BLISS.{From an engraving on an old pewter flagon.) HALLEY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 85 been already mentioned, with respect to the transitof Venus of 1761, the observations of which werecarried out by Bliss, owing to Bradleys ill-health.It was natural,…
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