| LC control no. | nr 91013698 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Blair, Robert, 1752-1828 |
| Variant(s) | Blair, Robert, d. 1828 |
| Associated country | Scotland |
| Birth date | 1752-11-04 |
| Death date | 1828-12-22 |
| Place of birth | Garvald and Bara (Scotland) |
| Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL |
| Found in | His A description of an accurate and simple method of adjusting Hadley's quadrant, 1788: t.p. (Mr. Robert Blair) DNB (Blair, Robert, MD, d. 1828; inventor of a telescope) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 9 Oct., 2019 (Blair, Robert (1748-1828), surgeon and maker of optical instruments; born at Garvald, Haddingtonshire; His proposal for improving the adjustment of Hadley's quadrant for back observations gained him an award of £100; died at Westlock, Berwickshire, on 22 December 1828) <https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2572> Fasti Ecclesiaie Scoticanae, 1915: vol. 1, p. 363 (Archibald Blair; Robert, M.D., Professor of Astronomy in the Univ. of Edinburgh, inventor of the "aplanatic" telescope, born 15th Nov. 1752, died 22nd Dec. 1828) FamilySearch WWW site, 9 Oct., 2019 (Robert Blair; Birth Date: 04 Nov 1752; Garvald, East Lothian, Scotland) <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTTY-LNY> |
| Associated language | eng |
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