Mason, Charles, 1728-1786
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Charles Mason was an astronomer and surveyor. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768.
Charles Mason (Oakridge Lynch, Gloucestershire, April 1728– Philadelphia, October 25, 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States (1764-1768).
Physicist and historian of science Thomas Darlington Cope received his A.B. (1903) and Ph.D. (1915) from the University of Pennsylvania; he became an instructor and later professor there from 1906-1952. He also studied at the University of Berlin (1912-1913) under Max Planck.
Thomas Darlington Cope was a physicist and a historian of science.
Charles Mason was an astronomer and surveyor; he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1768.
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