Nathaniel Bliss
English astronomer (1700-1764) · Scientists · Died at 63
Nathaniel 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.
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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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Lived 1700 to 1764 · aged 63
