Blair, Robert ♂

Education

M.D. 15.8.1785 on testimonial signed by A Monro, Edinburgh.

Birth/childhood

Born 15.11.1785 son of Archibald Blair, minister at Garvald and Janet Barclay.

Career

Educated at Edinburgh University - medical student 1775-1776.

Surgeon Royal Navy 21.7.1777 etc. As first commissioner for the care of sick and hurt seamen he was instrumental in banishing scurvy by the introduction of lime juice. [Doctor]

Professor of Astronomy, Edinburgh University 1785 - 22.12.1828 (died). [University professor]

Inventor of aplanatic telescope.

Publications

'Experiments and Observations on the Unequal Refrangibility of Light,' Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (iii. 3-76, 1794).

Death

[Died 22.12.1828.]

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