Hector Copland Macpherson (1888-1956), Clergyman, educator, lecturer and writer on astronomy and its history
Abstract
Hector Macpherson was the author of several well-known books on astronomy during the first half of the last century, his magnum opus, a Biographical Dictionary of Astronomy (1940), was for various reasons not published in his lifetime, and was not widely distributed. Now, after a long lapse of years, it has achieved its due recognition, having served as a core element in the recent Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2007), to which Macpherson himself thus becomes a posthumous contributor. In this paper we recall the career of this energetic promoter of astronomy and significant recorder of its history and personalities.
- Publication:
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The Antiquarian Astronomer
- Pub Date:
- February 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011AntAs...5....4B