Dixon, Jeremiah
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Dixon, Jeremiah
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Dixon, Jeremiah, 1733-1779
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Dixon, Jeremiah, astronomer
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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).
Epithet: astronomer
Thomas Darlington Cope was a physicist and a historian of science.
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.
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Mason-Dixon Line.
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Mason-Dixon Line.
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