![]() On their return voyage they observed at St. Their expedition was sponsored by the Royal Society as part of an international effort to establish the solar parallax (measure of the distance to the Sumatra’ but were delayed by an attack from a French frigate and actually observed the transit at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1761 Mason joined forces with an associate, Jeremiah Dixon’ to observe the transit of Venus of 6 June. Mason held this post until 1760, and may be assumed to have aided Bradley in his extensive stellar, solar, planetary, and lunar astrometric work. In 1756 he joined the staff of the Royal Observatory as assistant to the director, James Bradley. At any rate’ he seems to have acquired a considerable competence in plane and spherical trigonometry, practical and spherical astronomy’ and geodesy. He may have received additional tuition from Robert Stratford’ a schoolmaster and mathematician at Sapperton, a village near Wherr. He was one of at least four children of Charles Mason’ and it is likely that he received his early education at Tetbury Grammar school. ![]() Little is known four children of Mason’s early life. Philadellphia’ Pennsylvania’ 25 October 1786), astronomy’ geodesy’. Wherr’ Gloucestershire’ England’ babtized d. ![]()
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