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Abraham Sharp (bap. 1653 - 1742)

Mathematician and scientific instrument maker. Contributed tables to Sherwin's Mathematical Tables (1710), identified in the preface as "the ingenious and unwearied Mr. Abr. Sharp," and published his Geometry Improv'd in 1717. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25206?docPos=7 Relevant locations: Birth place in Little Horton, West Yorkshire
 Relationships: Abraham Sharp was a correspondent of Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725)

Thomas Sharp (c.1634-1693) was a brother of Abraham Sharp
Linked print sources: as Donator of object(s) - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
as Subject of/in a document - Life and Correspondence of Abraham Sharp: The Yorkshire Mathematician and Assistant of Flamsteed; with Memorials of His Family and Associated Families.
 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

A Portable Dial, with a Needle to direct the setting it in any Place upon Travel. Don. Jo. Boulter. Arm. A Column Dial, which being soiled, and of uncertain Latitude, was renewed and calculated for this Town by the ingenious Mr. Joseph Bland of Beeston. A declining Dial for the Library Window, by the celebrated Mr. Abr. Sharp.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) Some Math ematical Bodies by the curious Pen of the incomparable Mr. Sharp, as he is stiled by the Publisher of some of his accurate Performances (b)(b) (a) Math. Tables contrived after a most comprehensive Way, p. 55., which "are sufficient to exhibit the Circumference of the Globe of the Earth, so truly as not to err the Breadth of a Grain of Sand in the whole." These Artists are only mentioned last, because still surviving.
A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 some Mathematical draughts done by the curious pen of Mr. Abr: Sharp