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Henry Ussher (astronomer) : ウィキペディア英語版 | Henry Ussher (astronomer) Henry Ussher (1741–1790) was an Irish astronomer. ==Life== He was fourth son of Samuel Ussher, rector of Dunganstown, County Wicklow, by his wife Frances Walsh. Gaining in 1759 a scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin he graduated B.A. in 1761, M.A. in 1764, B.D. and D.D. in 1779. He was elected to a fellowship in 1764, and co-opted senior fellow in 1781. Appointed on 22 Jan 1783, the first Andrews Professor of Astronomy, Ussher went to London to order from Jesse Ramsden instruments for the planned Dunsink Observatory. These included: a small achromatic lens telescope, mounted on a polar axis, and carried by a heliostatic movement; an equatoreal machine with circles five feet in diameter; a transit of six feet focal length, and a ten-foot vertical circle executed, after delays, on a reduced scale. Ussher chose the site for the observatory at Dunsink near Dublin, planned the building, and supervised its construction.〔 Ussher's election as a fellow of the Royal Society of London on 24 November 1785 followed shortly after the incorporation of the Royal Irish Academy, of which he was an original member. He died at his house in Harcourt Street, Dublin, on 8 May 1790, and was buried in the college chapel.〔
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