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See also:SIR See also:EDWARD See also:SABINE (1788-1883)
, 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 See also:commission in the royal See also:artillery at the See also:age of fifteen, attaining the See also:rank of See also:major-See also:general in 1859
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His only experience of warfare seems to have been at the See also:siege of Fort See also:Erie (See also:Canada) in 1814
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In See also:early See also:life he devoted himself to See also:astronomy and See also:physical See also: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-See also:West Passage, and that of Sir E
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See also:Parry soon afterwards
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Later, he spent See also: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: While the See also:majority of his researches See also:bear on one or other of the. subjects just mentioned, others See 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 See also:meridian, See also:glacier transport of rocks, the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands, and various points of See also:meteorology . |
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