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English mathematician and professor of astronomy at Gresham College. He was secretary of the Royal Society from 1718 to 1747.
John Machin
Works
- The Laws of the Moon's Motion according to Gravity, appended to Motte's 1729 translation of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Works about Machin
- "Machin, John (d.1751)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
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