Nathaniel Bliss
The reverend Nathaniel Bliss (November 28th 1700 - September 2nd 1764) is a British Astronome , royal astronomer between 1762 and 1764.
Bliss is born in the Cotswolds with Bisley in the Gloucestershire and studies with Pembroke College.
Vice-chancellor of the church of Saint-Ebb it succeeds Edmond Halley as professor of Géométrie to the Université of Oxford in 1742 and is elected member of the Royal Society the same year.
He carries out various astronomical observations in particular a Comet approaching the Sun about 1744, of the Transit of Venus of 1761 to replace James Bradley sick and, in 1764, he observes and publishes in connection with a eclipse visible with Greenwich. Having assisted and having replaced Bradley, it succeeds to him naturally its death in 1762 like royal astronomer.
The 18 months that it remains to him to live do not make it possible him to pose its mark on the royal Observatoire of Greenwich. It continues in the line of Bradley with an special attention for the department of the Horloge S.
He dies in Oxford but is buried in the cemetery of the Saint-Margaret church to Lee, in the south-east of London, meadows of the tomb of Halley. Its observations are considered to be interesting by the Board off Longitude - office of longitudes - to solve the difficult problem of the precise calculation of longitude at sea and are repurchased with its widow by the office.
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