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Charles Mason

Charles Mason (1730 - 1787) was an English astronomer.

Mason's early career was spent at the Greenwich Observatory[?] near London. He worked on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon line (1763 - 1767), along with fellow-Englishman Jeremiah Dixon. The two had previously travelled around the Cape of Good Hope, where they observed the transit of the planet Venus



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