Precepts for using Professor Mayer's new and correct tables of the motions of the sun and moon : manuscript, [not before 1770]
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Willard, Joseph, 1738-1804
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University president, clergyman, and educator. From the description of Circular signed by Joseph Willard, Harvard University president, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067536 Joseph Willard was born on 29 Dec. 1738, the youngest son of the Rev. Samuel and Abigail Willard of Biddeford, Me. Upon the death of his father, his mother remarried, and he grew up in the household of the Rev. Richard Elvins of Scarborough, Me. Intent upon a medical career, and encouraged b...
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Mayer, Tobias, 1723-1762
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German astronomer, mathematician (cartography, astronomy). 1745 Homann Cartographic Bureau (Nuremberg); 1750 professor of astronomy in Göttingen, 1754 Director of Göttingen Observatory. From the description of Papers, 1747-1760. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84008675 German astronomer, mathematician. Director of Göttingen Observatory, 1754. From the description of Letters. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84429585 ...
