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William Petrie
William Petrie
(1747 – 27 October 1816) was a British officer of the
East India Company
in
Chennai
(formerly Madras) during the 1780s, and was
Governor of Prince of Wales Island
(
Penang Island
) from 1812 to 1816. An amateur
astronomer
, Petrie helped found the first modern observatory outside Europe, the
Madras Observatory
.
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An account of a shoal to the Eastward of the Cape of Good Hope : taken from the relation of some English passengers, and also from the journal of the brigantine Telemaque, Captain...
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Published 1787
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