Gill, Sir David (1843-1914)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3653. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, born in Aberdeen, trained as a watchmaker, had a private observatory near Aberdeen, became Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. He redetermined the solar parallax by observing the close approach to the Earth in 1889 of the minor planets Iris, Victoria and Sappho (his was the standard value for nearly a century). His measurement was repeated by HAROLD SPENCER JONES during...

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