Oxford to London

The academic Thomas Hornsby, with his forbiddingly technical lectures on the transit, might seem a world away from the scientific impresario Benjamin Martin. Yet there was overlap between the work of the Oxford cleric and the London businessman.
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In his rather miscellaneous text An Appendix to the Description and Use of the Globes (1766), Martin provided an abstract of a recent paper by Hornsby on the 1769 transit. Hornsby’s influential piece re-analysed the problem of selecting observing sites around the world.
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