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| Date transcribed | 2000-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Steve van Dulken |
| | Surname | Mackay | | | First names | Andrew | | | Rank/ occupation | Mathematical Examiner to the EIC | | | Death date | 3 Aug 1809 | | | Place of death | Minories  | | | Source | Gentleman's Magazine | | | Date | Aug 1809 | | | Page number | 787 | | | Detail | At his house in George-street, Trinity-square, Minories, aged 50, Andrew Mackay, LL. D., F.R.S. Edin. Honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and Mathematical Examiner to the Honourable the Corporation of Trinity House, the Honourable East India Company, Christ's Hospital, &c.&c. He ranked among the most eminent Mathematicians of his age; and was author of several important works in Astronomy and Navigation. As a Calculator he stood unrivaled in the extensive nature and perfect accuracy of his labours: and in his ""Theory and Practice of finding the Longitude at Sea and Land"" he has left to his Country an excellent specimen of Nautical Science. |
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