Ramsden, Jesse (1735-1800)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3943. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Instrument-maker, born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the most outstanding maker of precision scientific instruments of the eighteenth century, producing extremely precise scaled circles. In 1775, he made the first dividing machine that could enscribe precise divisions on the borders of small-diameter circles. He made the theodolites with 3 foot diameter circles used in triangulation to connect ...

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