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See also: English astronomer and geodesist, was See also: born in See also: Dublin on the 14th of See also: October 1788, a See also: scion of a See also: family said to be of See also: Italian origin
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He was educated at the Royal Military See also: Academy, See also: Woolwich, and obtained a commission in the royal artillery at the age of fifteen, attaining the See also: rank of major-general in 1859
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His only experience of warfare seems to have been at the siege of Fort See also: Erie (See also: Canada) in 1814
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In early See also: life he devoted himself to astronomy and See also: physical geography, and in consequence he was appointed astronomer to `various expeditions, among others that of See also: Sir J
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See also: Ross (1818) in See also: search of the See also: North-West Passage, and that of Sir E
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See also: Parry soon afterwards
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Later, he spent long periods on the inter-tropical coasts of See also: Africa and See also: America, and again among the snows of Spitzbergen
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He was associated with See also: Henry
See also: Williams Chisholm and others as a member of the Royal Commission of
1868–1869 for standardizing weights and See also: measures
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See also: Sabine was for ten years (1861–1871) president of the Royal Society, and was made K.C.B. in 1869
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He died at See also: East Sheen, Surrey, on the 26th of May 1883
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Of Sabine's scientific See also: work two branches in particular deserve very high credit—his determination of the length of the second's pendulum, and his extensive researches connected with terrestrial See also: magnetism
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The establishment of a See also: system of magnetic observatories in various parts of See also: British territory all over the globe was accomplished mainly on his representations; and a See also: great See also: part of his life was devoted to their direction, and, to the reduction and discussion of the observations
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While the majority of his researches bear on one or other of the. subjects just mentioned, othersSee also: deal with such widely different topics as the birds of See also: Green-See also: land, ocean temperatures, the Gulf Stream, barometric measurement of heights, arcs of meridian, glacier transport of rocks, the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands, and various points of meteorology
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