John Adams was an English mathematician, amateur astronomer and inventor of the artificial horizon, born at Ponders End in Middlesex in 1737 or 1738 and dead in 1802. As a young man he went to sea and, while in the Brazils around 1760, was brought before the Inquisition for defending the Copernican system. By 1773 he ran the Farmhill Academy at Waltham Abbey, teaching mathematics, navigation and astronomy, and he published The Young Sea-Officer's Assistant that year. In 1785 he won the thanks and silver medal of the Royal Society of Arts for his artificial horizon. He was Master of Latymer's Charity School in Edmonton from 1781 until his death, known for his work on mathematics and logarithms and for early systematic meteorological studies.
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John Adams (1737/8–1802) was an English mathematician, amateur astronomer, and inventor of the artificial horizon.
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John Adams (1737/8-1802) was an English mathematician, amateur astronomer, and inventor of the artificial horizon.
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John Adams (1737/8-1802) was an English mathematician, amateur astronomer, and inventor of the artificial horizon.
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He also served as the influential Master of Latymer's Charity School in Edmonton from 1781 until his death.
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