Sir Thomas Maclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope.[1]
Sir ThomasMaclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope...
Maclear may refer to: Sir ThomasMaclear (1794–1879), Irish-born South African astronomer Michael Maclear (1929-2018), Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary...
great-great-grand-nephew of South African astronomer Sir ThomasMaclear. Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting...
Livingstone uncovered the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the astronomer ThomasMaclear, who was Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of...
eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir ThomasMaclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 metres...
nephew of ThomasMaclear, Her Majesty's Astronomer at Cape Town, and cousin to John Maclear, admiral in the Royal Navy, and Basil Maclear. Maclear won the...
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Kyo Maclear (born 1970) is a Canadian novelist and children's author. Maclear was born in London, England and moved to Toronto, Canada at a young age...
was that of the return of Comet Halley. Herschel collaborated with ThomasMaclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope and the members of the...
the reduction of the meridian observations of the previous director, ThomasMaclear. In November 1873 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Astronomical...
Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist (Oxford University Press, 2013) pp30-33 ThomasMaclear, Verification and Extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape...
the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir ThomasMaclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good...
husband set up a private 21 ft (6.4 m) telescope. He collaborated with ThomasMaclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope and the two families...
of Sir ThomasMaclear, Her Majesty's Astronomer in Cape Town, South Africa, and one of five sons of a Bedford Doctor, Major Henry Wallich Maclear. He was...
and their alloys." ThomasMaclear Astronomy "For his measurement of an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good Hope." 1870 Thomas Davidson Paleontology...
Butterfield, He landed at the Cape on 5 January 1834 as a servant to ThomasMaclear, the new Astronomer Royal, whose service he left in July 1835, taking...
Caille, Astronomer and Geodesist (Oxford University Press, 2013) pp30-33 ThomasMaclear, Verification and Extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape...
Good Hope was awarded the Royal Medal on two occasions; the first to ThomasMaclear in 1869 for measurement of an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good...
School until the age of sixteen when he became an assistant to Sir ThomasMaclear at the Cape of Good Hope, where he observed Halley's comet and the Great...
Colonial Treasurer, Charles Davidson Bell, the Surveyor-General and Sir ThomasMaclear, her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape, were among the pallbearers. While...
justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, born near Newtownstewart. ThomasMaclear (1794–1879), Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, was born in...
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