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Internet, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians 01-02-2005
Information trouvée : Henry Gellibrand Born: 17 Nov 1597 in London, England Died: 16 Feb 1636 in London,
England. He entered the church becoming a curate in Chiddingstone, Kent a couple of
years after receiving his M.A. from Oxford. Gellibrand succeeded Gunter to the chair
of astronomy in Gresham College, London in 1627. Gellibrand's most famous scientific
discovery was the change over the years in magnetic declination. He also made mathematical
contributions to navigation, in particular working on methods to determine longitude.
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