Logan, James (1674-1751)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3819. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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American civil servant, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Ireland, emigrated (1699) to Pennsylvania to work for William Penn, and became one of the first men of science in the colonies. Took up mathematics, hybridized corn, invented the Conestoga wagon, got his own telescope, worked on the aberration of lenses, observed the heavens, and wrote a commentary on HALLEY's lunar tables....

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