Fallows, Fearon (1789-1831)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3616. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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English astronomer, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Disenchanted with university life at Cambridge, he won the job of the first director of the Royal Observatory at the Cape, in South Africa, to provide navigational and time information for the ships of the Royal Navy that called into the harbor. He established the observatory at the base of Table Mountain, in what is now Observatory, a suburb o...

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