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    Thomas Maclear (17 March 1794 – 14 July 1879) was an Irish-born Cape Colony astronomer who became Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope. Born...
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    Maclear is a lava-flooded crater on the northwest part of the Mare Tranquillitatis, a lunar mare in the eastern half of the Moon. Its diameter is 20 km...
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    Maclear, officially Nqanqarhu, is a small town situated in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, near the Mooi River (a tributary of the Tsitsa River)...
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    Maclear's Beacon is a triangulation station used in Maclear's arc measurement for Earth's circumference determination. The beacon is situated on top of...
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    Astronomer and Geodesist (Oxford University Press, 2013) pp. 30-33. Thomas Maclear, Verification and Extension of La Caille's Arc of Meridian at the Cape...
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    Livingstone uncovered the Cape, and named it "Cape Maclear" after his friend, the astronomer Thomas Maclear, who was Her Majesty's Astronomer at the Cape of...
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    northern. In 1838, Thomas Maclear, who was Astronomer Royal at the Cape, repeated the measurements over a longer baseline (Maclear's arc measurement) and...
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  • Maclear may refer to: Sir Thomas Maclear (1794–1879), Irish-born South African astronomer Michael Maclear (1929-2018), Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary...
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  • great-great-grand-nephew of South African astronomer Sir Thomas Maclear. Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting...
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    the Royal Astronomical Society in 1869, and on the resignation of Sir Thomas Maclear in 1870 he was appointed Her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape of Good...
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    his lack of confidence. He later published confirming observations by Thomas Maclear. Alpha Centauri remained the nearest known star until the discovery...
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    eastern end of the plateau and is marked by Maclear's Beacon, a stone cairn built in 1865 by Sir Thomas Maclear for trigonometrical survey. It is 1,086 metres...
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    was that of the return of Comet Halley. Herschel collaborated with Thomas Maclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope and the members of the...
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    of Sir Thomas Maclear, Her Majesty's Astronomer in Cape Town, South Africa, and one of five sons of a Bedford Doctor, Major Henry Wallich Maclear. He was...
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    nephew of Thomas Maclear, Her Majesty's Astronomer at Cape Town, and cousin to John Maclear, admiral in the Royal Navy, and Basil Maclear. Maclear won the...
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    Maclear's rat (Rattus macleari) is an extinct large rat endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. It was one of two species of rat native to Christmas...
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    Colonial Treasurer, Charles Davidson Bell, the Surveyor-General and Sir Thomas Maclear, her Majesty's astronomer at the Cape, were among the pallbearers. While...
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    justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, born near Newtownstewart. Thomas Maclear (1794–1879), Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope, was born in...
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    Good Hope was awarded the Royal Medal on two occasions; the first to Thomas Maclear in 1869 for measurement of an arc of the meridian at the Cape of Good...
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    parallax). Scottish astronomer Thomas Henderson used his observations made in 1832–1833 and South African astronomer Thomas Maclear's observations made in 1836–1837...
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    when his observations were able to be scrutinised by John Herschel and Thomas Maclear in South Africa. Only then were the various flaws of his observations...
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  • Lomonosov Augustus Edward Hough Love Percival Lowell Charles Lyell Sir Thomas Maclear William Duncan MacMillan Johann Heinrich Mädler Ferdinand Magellan Giovanni...
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    John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear (27 June 1838 in Cape Town – 17 July 1907 in Niagara) was an admiral in the Royal Navy, known for his leadership in hydrography...
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    School until the age of sixteen when he became an assistant to Sir Thomas Maclear at the Cape of Good Hope, where he observed Halley's Comet and the Great...
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    husband set up a private 21 ft (6.4 m) telescope. He collaborated with Thomas Maclear, the Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hope and the two families...
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  • – biblical prophet Aaron Banda (Central) – Hastings Banda Cape MaclearThomas Maclear Fort Maguire (Southern) – Captain Cecil Montgomery Maguire (died...
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    Chacornac 1864: Richard Christopher Carrington 1865: Warren de la Rue 1866: Thomas Maclear 1867: Giovanni Schiaparelli 1868: Pierre Jules Janssen 1869: James Craig...
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    Butterfield, He landed at the Cape on 5 January 1834 as a servant to Thomas Maclear, the new Astronomer Royal, whose service he left in July 1835, taking...
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  • Kirkwood – James Somers Kirkwood Lady Grey – Lady Eliza Lucy Grey MaclearThomas Maclear Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality – Nelson Mandela OR...
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