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   Sharp
   Abraham
   A. S. ; pseudonym A. S. Philomath ;
   no
   
   1651 in Horton Hall, Little Horton, Bradford, Engl
   1742
   Horton Hall, England
   
   scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden (1xxx-1xxx) (great nephew)
   
   England, UK
   John Flamsteed: Historiæ coelestis britannicæ (1725) ; Atlas coelestis (1729) ; A. S. (under pseudonym A. S. Philomath): Geometry improv'd (London 1717, 1st bBy a large and accurate table of segments of circles, its construction and various uses; 2nd: A concise treatise of polyedra, or solid bodies of many bases) ;
   Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
   engraver & portraitist -> George Vertue (1684-1756) ;
   astronomical engraving ; instrument making
   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Sharp ;
   Lesley Murdin: Under Newton's Shadow. Astronomical Practices in the 17th Century (Bristol & Boston 1985: 106) ; William Cudworth: Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp (London 1889) ; Elizabeth Connor: Abraham Sharp, 1653-1742, in: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 54 (1942): 237243 ;
   
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