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- Q21062155 description "British mathematician".
- Q21062155 description "British mathematician".
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- Q21062155 abstract "Robert Waddington (died 1779) was a mathematician, astronomer and teacher of navigation. He is best known as one of the observers appointed by the Royal Society to observe the 1761 transit of Venus with Nevil Maskelyne on the island of Saint Helena. On that voyage they made successful use of the lunar-distance method of establishing longitude at sea. Waddington subsequently taught the method at his academy in London and published a navigation manual, A Practical Method for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Ship at Sea, by Observations of the Moon (1763).".
- Q21062155 deathDate "1779".
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- Q21062155 dateOfDeath "1779".
- Q21062155 name "Waddington, Robert".
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- Q21062155 comment "Robert Waddington (died 1779) was a mathematician, astronomer and teacher of navigation. He is best known as one of the observers appointed by the Royal Society to observe the 1761 transit of Venus with Nevil Maskelyne on the island of Saint Helena. On that voyage they made successful use of the lunar-distance method of establishing longitude at sea.".
- Q21062155 label "Robert Waddington (mathematician)".
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