“I hope it may at least permit the easier and less laborious employment of weighing the world”
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John Michell
John Michell was an English natural philosopher and clergyman who provided pioneering insights into a wide range of scientific fields including astronomy, geology, optics, and gravitation. He was the first to have proposed the existence of stellar bodies comparable to black holes, and was the first to apply statistics to astronomy, providing the earliest evidence for the physical nature of double…
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science · English natural philosopher and clergyman (1724–1793) · Anglican priest · astronomer · geologist · natural philosopher · philosopher · physicist · university teacher · also John Michell, Michell
Born 25 December 1724 · Died 21 April 1793 · Q373097
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2026· 2 entries
“the place I told you I was going to remove to”
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1973· 1 entry
“The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time”
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1910· 1 entry
Sir Edmund Whittaker observed that during the century after Isaac Newton's death, "the only natural philosopher of distinction who lived and taught at Cambridge was Michell", although his "researches seem to have attract
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1793· 1 entry
Died 1793-04-21.
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1724· 1 entry
Born 1724-12-25.
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