Epithet: Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge
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Roger Cotes (1682-1716), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1705-16, was Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Natural Philosophy at Cambridge, 1706-16, and editor of the new edition of Newton's Principia, 1713. Cotes wrote a series of lectures in 1707 to describe a course of experiments with which he had been involved, which were published by his literary executor Robert Smith as Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures, 1738.
From the guide to the Roger Cotes: Cambridge Lectures on Hydrostatics and Pneumatics, c.1730, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
