biography
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| (1646–1719)
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| biography:
| The first Astronomer Royal of England (1675–1719), born in Denby, Derbyshire, C England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, and in 1676 instituted reliable observations at Greenwich, near London, providing data from which Newton was later able to verify the gravitational theory. |
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