Illustration of Dixon surveying the Mason–Dixon line, 1910
Born
(1733-07-27)27 July 1733
Cockfield, County Durham, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died
22 January 1779(1779-01-22) (aged 45)
Cockfield, County Durham, Kingdom of Great Britain
Nationality
British
Known for
Mason–Dixon line
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy, surveying
Signature
Jeremiah Dixon (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779)[1] was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.
^Derek Howse, ‘Dixon, Jeremiah (1733–1779)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 22 April 2013
JeremiahDixon (27 July 1733 – 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to...
and American history, particularly through his survey with JeremiahDixon of the Mason–Dixon line, which came to mark the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania...
historical novel about Charles Mason and JeremiahDixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim...
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as Mayor of Middlesbrough. Dixon was one of the seven children of Jeremiah II Dixon (1804–1882) and Mary Frank (1803–1877) of Cockfield, County Durham...
the Chesapeake Bay, and in turn was used by Charles Mason and JeremiahDixon (of Mason–Dixon line fame) in 1763 when they were engaged to survey the north-south...
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