Thomas Wright Manuscripts ca.1720-1786

Thomas Wright, 1711-1786 of Byers Green, Co. Durham, astronomer, architect and antiquary

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Thomas Wright was born at Byers Green, Co. Durham. In 1730, at the age of 20, he set up his own school in Sunderland, where he taught mathematics and navigation, and sold mathematical instruments. Through the good offices of the Earl of Scarbrough, his instrument the pannauticon was approved by the Lords of the Admiralty, and the central period of his career was spent in London and in the country houses of aristocratic patrons. A polymath, Wright achieved distinction not only as a mathematician,...

Wright, Thomas, 1711-1786

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Beighton, Henry, d. 1743

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