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James Short

Scottish mathematician and maker of reflecting telescopes (1710–1768), who saw Neith once in London in 1740 AD.

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James Short was a Scottish mathematician, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the most celebrated maker of reflecting telescopes of his age. In London in 1740 AD he saw the companion of Venus once, the first sighting of Neith since Cassini's in 1686.