Thomas Godfrey
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican optician and inventor (1704-1749)
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Thomas Godfrey was a glazier and self-taught mathematician and astronomer in the Pennsylvania Colony, who invented the octant in 1730. A similar octant was also independently invented about the same time by John Hadley in London with Hadley receiving the greater share of the credit for development.
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United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1704 to 1749 · aged 45
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