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Thomas Godfrey

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Thomas Godfrey

American optician and inventor (1704-1749)

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About Thomas Godfrey

Thomas Godfrey was a glazier and self-taught mathematician and astronomer in the Pennsylvania Colony, who invented the octant in 1730. A similar octant was also independently invented about the same time by John Hadley in London with Hadley receiving the greater share of the credit for development.

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Occupation: inventor, glazier
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Born: 1704, January 10, 1704

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December 1749

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