GASCOIGNE, WILLIAM |
England, 1612-38, OIM |
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invented a micrometer for telescopes in 1638; may have been the first to put telescopic sights on a quadrant. |
Middleton, Yorkshire; London. |
Taylor 1(176); DNB; Wynter and Turner; Nachet; Dewhirst; Daumas 1; Goldschmidt 70. |