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Francis Wollaston

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English astronomer

ScientistsLived 1731 to 1815 · aged 83
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Francis Wollaston was a British astronomer and Church of England priest. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1769.

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Wollaston's Transit Instrument for determining the position of celestial objects as they pass the meridian[1]Wollaston's Transit Instrument for determining the position of celestial objects as they pass the meridian[1]

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Fellow of the Royal Society

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Scientists born in the 1730s 6

Friedrich Wilhelm von Leysser37.9Franz von Lauer37.5Tommaso Valperga di Caluso38.0Thomas Martyn37.4Richard Pulteney38.1Mathias Piller37.4

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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1731 to 1815 · aged 83
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