Bevis, John (1695-1771)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3471. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Doctor and amateur astronomer, born in Old Sarum, Wiltshire, England. Bevis was the only person ever to have telescopically observed (through patchy cloud from Greenwich) the occultation of one planet by another, namely the occultation of Mercury by Venus on 28 May 1737 (the next chance, in theory, is an occultation of Neptune by Mercury in 2067). URBAIN LEVERRIER used Bevis's observations to che...

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