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Mycenae House Local History Group Lecture, 4 Octoer 2021

 

The Royal Observatory: John Pond and some Blackheath connections

 

This page is intended to support a lecture given by Graham Dolan to the Mycenae House Local History Group at Mycenae House on 4 Octoer 2021.

 

 

 

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John Pond, the sixth Astronomer Royal

The old churchyard, St Margaret’s Lee: the burial place of Halley, Bliss and Pond – the second, fourth and sixth Astronomers Royal

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