History of Astronomy : Persons : Persons (B)

Brouncker, William

Born: c. 1620, Castle Lyons, Ireland
Died: 5 April 1684, Westminster (Oxford ?), England

Mathematician

Relation to astronomy: Member of a committee for the longitude problem (see English attack on the Longitude Problem).

External documents

Biographies, bibliographies and references

• Biographical data and references
• Short biography and references (MacTutor Hist. Math.)
• Short biography
• Library of Congress entry

Further links

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Wolfgang R. Dick. Created: 7 Jan 1998. Latest update: 20 Feb 2002