Thomas Maclear
✓ Source-basedrisingSouth African astronomer (1794-1879)
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Thomas Maclear was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.
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A memorial to Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and Thomas Maclear, at Aurora, Western Cape, South Africa. The English portion of the inscription reads: "This is the site of the Maclear Beacon positioned in 1838 near the original North Terminal of the Arc of Meridian positioned by Abbé de la Caille, the first surveyor to introduce Geodetic Surveying into South Africa."
Maclear's Beacon, Table Mountain, Cape Town, 2023
Sir Thomas, on the receipt of his knighthood, 1860Awards 4
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Lived 1794 to 1879 · aged 85
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