Robert Main
1808–78
Astronomer. Chief assistant at the Royal Observatory, 1835–60. An active member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Appointed Radcliffe observer, Oxford, in 1860. FRS 1860.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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