Abraham Sharp (c. 1653 – 18 July 1742) was an English mathematician and astronomer. Sharp was born in Horton Hall in Little Horton, Bradford, the son...

both him and Dr. Halley a great kindness," he wrote to his assistant Abraham Sharp. The data from the pirated catalogue were used by the London cartographer...

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John Abraham (born 17 December 1972) is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi films. Known for his stoic action hero persona, he is a recipient...

to calculate each additional digit. In 1699, English mathematician Abraham Sharp used the Gregory–Leibniz series for z = 1 3 {\textstyle z={\frac {1}{\sqrt...

style by James Thornhill. It also presents two planispheres designed by Abraham Sharp. The first stellar atlas based in telescopic observations, the Atlas...

Sharp is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Sinus Iridum bay of the Mare Imbrium, beyond the Montes Jura range. To the southwest is the...

fauna. approx. date – Sir Isaac Newton develops a reflecting quadrant. Abraham Sharp calculates π to 72 digits using an arctan sequence (although only 71...

Abraham ben Abraham (Hebrew: אברהם בן אברהם, lit. "Avraham the son of Avraham") (c. 1700 – 23 May 1749), also known as Count Valentine (Valentin, Walentyn)...

largely to the efforts of his widow, Margaret, and former assistants Abraham Sharp and Joseph Crosthwaite. John Freind (physician) begins publication of...

extrapolation 10 1665 Isaac Newton 16 1681 Takakazu Seki 11 16 1699 Abraham Sharp Calculated pi to 72 digits, but not all were correct 71 1706 John Machin...

pp. 624–627. ISBN 9780750307635. Baily, F. (1835). "Account of Mr. Abraham Sharp's observations of the transit of Mercury in April 1707, and Flamsteed's...

1893. Abraham Sharp – (1653–1742) mathematician and astronomer, born in Horton Hall, Little Horton. Calculated pi to 72 places of decimals. John Sharp – (1643–1714)...

Flamsteed's death in 1719. Along with Flamsteed's widow, Margaret, and Abraham Sharp, he finalised publication of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica...

daughters. The Sharp family was notable in Yorkshire, and its members included, John Sharp who had been an Archbishop of York, and Abraham Sharp a mathematician...

filmed in Sicily in early 2022, and features an ensemble cast of F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Meghann Fahy, Beatrice Grannò, Jon Gries...

meaning sharp and used to describe a "sharp or smart" person. Abraham Sharp (1651–1742), English schoolmaster, mathematician and astronomer Alan Sharp (1934–2013)...

Kent Tomb of Susanna Hare (1741) in Stow Bardolph, Norfolk Tomb of Abraham Sharp (1742) in Bradford Cathedral Tomb of Sir Christopher Powell, 4th Baronet...

brachistochrone problem, the first result in the calculus of variations. 1699 – Abraham Sharp calculates π to 72 digits but only 71 are correct. 1706 – John Machin...

to British Rowing, with a boat code of BRG. John Sharp (1645–1714), Archbishop of York Abraham Sharp (1653–1742), mathematician and scientific instrument...

Abraham Woodhull (October 7, 1750 – January 23, 1826) was a leading member of the Culper Spy Ring in New York City and Setauket, New York, during the...

Abraham Gotthelf Kästner (27 September 1719 – 20 June 1800) was a German mathematician and epigrammatist. He was known in his professional life for writing...

Vasilievich Sharonov (1901–1964) WGPSN Sharp 45°45′N 40°13′W / 45.75°N 40.22°W / 45.75; -40.22 (Sharp) 37.61 1935 Abraham Sharp (1651–1742) WGPSN Shatalov 24°16′N...

drysalter. The Sharps were from an ancient Yorkshire family which included the mathematician Abraham Sharp, the Archbishop of York John Sharp, Archdeacon...

Fido (c. 1851 – 1865) was a yellow mixed-breed dog owned by Abraham Lincoln and kept by the family for a number of years prior to Lincoln's presidency...

He was known never to reprove anyone sharply but always with charity and gentleness. Around the year 360 Abraham died at the age of seventy after a long...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a biographical action horror mashup novel by Seth Grahame-Smith, released on March 2, 2010, through New York–based...

Campbell 2025- Memorial to Abraham Balme main promoter of the Bradford Canal, sculpted by John Flaxman RA. Monument to Abraham Sharp (d.1742) by Peter Scheemakers...

John Flamsteed; Claudius Ptolemaeus; Tycho Brahe; Johannes Hevelius; Abraham Sharp (1725). Historia Coelestis Britannica: Complectens Praefationem spatiosam...

Atlas Coelestis in 1729. Margaret was assisted by Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp, two of Flamsteed's assistants. The publishing of these two great works...