This is the grave of Charles Mason. Born in 1728 in Oakridge, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, Mason got some kind of an education and then ended up working as an astronomer in the Royal Greenwich Observatory. So presumably that was a good education. That began in 1756. He stayed there for four years. While there, he got really into the German astronomer Tobias Mayer, who had published something called Tables of the Moon, so that sailors could …
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