References for Nathaniel Bliss

1. Anita McConnell, Nathaniel Bliss (1700-1764), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).
2. Voula Saridakis, Nathaniel Bliss, in Thomas Hockey (ed.) Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007), 138-139.
3. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
   http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/69421/Nathaniel-Bliss

Books:

4. J Fauvel, R Flood and R Wilson, Oxford figures : 800 years of the mathematical sciences (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).

Articles:

5. Nathaniel Bliss, National Maritime Museum.
   http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it3369z
6. Nathaniel Bliss, in E Walter Maunder, The Royal Observatory Greenwich A Glance At Its History And Work (London, 1900).

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