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Christopher Maire

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De litteraria Expeditione per Pontificiam Ditionem ad dimetiendos duos Meridiani Gradus et corrigendam Mappam geographicam, jussu et auspiciis Benedicti XIV Pont. Max. suscepta a Patribus Societatis Jesu Christophoro Maire et Rogerio Josepho
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De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem ad dimetiendos duos meridiani gradus et corrigendam mappam geographicam
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De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem ad dimetiendos duos meridiani gradus et corrigendam mappam geographicam
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Observationes Cometæ ineunte anno mdccxliv in Collegio Anglicano Romæ habitæ, et cum theoria Newtoniana comparatæ
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in the autumn of 1744, and he held that post until 1750. He returned to St Omer in March 1757; and died at
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Observations made at Rome of the Eclipse of the Moon, Dec. 23, 1749, and of that of the Sun, Jan. 8, 1750
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Continuatio Observationum Astronomicarum P. C. Maire … quas Romæ habuit annis 1743 et 1744
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Observationes Astronomicæ Leodii, Audomarapoli, et Romæ habitæ ab anno 1727 ad 1743
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Observatio partialis Eclipsis Lunæ die 25 Decembris 1749 in Collegio Anglicano
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called Maire "an able mathematician", based on measurements he made of
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Table of Longitudes and Latitudes for the principal Towns of the World
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Memorie sopra la Fisica e Istoria Naturale di diversi Valentuomini
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Osservazioni dell' ultimo passagio di Mercurio fatte in Roma
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Defectus Solis observatus die 25 Julii in Collegio Anglicano
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Index

Jesuit
County Durham
Lawkland
Yorkshire
St Omer College
Watten
Liège
English College at Rome
Ghent

Carlo Antonio Giuliani
Mémoires de Trévoux
Francesco Antonio Zaccaria
Philosophical Transactions
Pope Benedict XIV
Roger Boscovich
Papal States
De litteraria expeditione per pontificiam ditionem ad dimetiendos duos meridiani gradus et corrigendam mappam geographicam
Stanislaus Wydra
Alban Butler
St Paul's Cathedral



Lee, Sidney
"Maire, Christopher" 
Dictionary of National Biography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/17815

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