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<p><b>Nathaniel Bliss</b> (* <a href="28._November" title="28. November">28. November</a> <a href="1700" title="1700">1700</a> in Bisley, Gloucestershire; † <a href="2._September" title="2. September">2. September</a> <a href="1764" title="1764">1764</a> in <a href="Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>) war ein englischer Astronom. Er war von 1762 bis 1764 königlicher Astronom (<a href="Astronomer_Royal" title="Astronomer Royal">Astronomer Royal</a>).
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben_und_Wirken">Leben und Wirken</h2></div>
<p>Bliss war der Sohne seines gleichnamigen Vaters Nathaniel Bliss, einem <a href="Wirkware" class="mw-redirect" title="Wirkware">Wirkwarenhändler</a>. Er <a href="Immatrikulation" title="Immatrikulation">immatrikulierte</a> sich am 10. Oktober 1716<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> am <a href="Pembroke_College_(Oxford)" title="Pembroke College (Oxford)">Pembroke College</a> in <a href="Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>. Dort graduierte Bliss 1720 zum Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) und 1723 zum Master of Arts (M.A.). Kurz darauf heiratete er Elizabeth Hillman (1700–1779). 1736 wurde Bliss <a href="Rektor" title="Rektor">Rektor</a> der St Ebbe’s Church in Oxford.
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<p>1742 wurde er Nachfolger von <a href="Edmond_Halley" title="Edmond Halley">Edmond Halley</a> als <a href="Savilian_Chair_of_Geometry" title="Savilian Chair of Geometry">Savilian Professor of Geometry</a> an der <a href="Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Universität Oxford</a>. 1762 wurde er als Nachfolger von <a href="James_Bradley" title="James Bradley">James Bradley</a> der vierte Astronomer Royal.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ehrungen">Ehrungen</h2></div>
<p>Am 20. Mai 1742 wurde Bliss als Mitglied („Fellow“) in die <a href="Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a> gewählt.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Im Jahr 2000 wurde von der <a href="Internationale_Astronomische_Union" title="Internationale Astronomische Union">IAU</a> der <a href="Mondkrater" title="Mondkrater">Mondkrater</a> <a href="Bliss_(Mondkrater)" title="Bliss (Mondkrater)">Bliss</a> nach ihm benannt.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften_(Auswahl)"><span id="Schriften_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Schriften (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li><i>An account of a printed memoir, in Latin, presented to the Royal Society, intituled, De Veneris ac Solis congressu observatio, habita in astronomicâ speculâ Bononiensis Scientiarum Instituti, die 5 Junii 1761. Auctore Eustachio Zanotto, ejusdem Instituti Astronomo, ac Regiæ utriusque Londinensis et Berolinensis Academiæ Socio.</i> In: <i><a href="Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society" title="Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society">Philosophical Transactions</a>.</i> Band 52, 1761, S. 399–414 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0064" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0064">doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0064</a>, <a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/105640">105640</a>) – Artikel von <a href="Eustachio_Zanotti" title="Eustachio Zanotti">Eustachio Zanotti</a>.</li>
<li><i>Observations on the transit of Venus over the sun, on the 6th of June 1761.</i> In: <i>Philosophical Transactions.</i> Band 52, 1761, S. 173–177 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0033" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0033">doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0033</a>, <a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/105609">105609</a>).</li>
<li><i>A second letter […] concerning the transit of Venus over the Sun, on the 6th of June 1761.</i> In: <i>Philosophical Transactions.</i> Band 52, 1761, S. 232–250 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1761.0046" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0046">doi:10.1098/rstl.1761.0046</a>, <a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/105622">105622</a>).</li>
<li><i>Observations on the eclipse of the sun, April 1, 1764.</i> In: <i>Philosophical Transactions.</i> Band 54, 1764, S. 141–144 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1764.0026" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1098/rstl.1764.0026">doi:10.1098/rstl.1764.0026</a>, <a href="JSTOR" title="JSTOR">JSTOR</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/105540">105540</a>).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Anita McConnell: <i>Bliss, Nathaniel (1700–1764)</i>. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Hrsg.): <i><a href="Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>, from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2653" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2653">doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2653</a> <small>(Lizenz erforderlich)</small>, Stand: 8. Oktober 2020.</li>
<li>Voula Saridakis: <i>Bliss, Nathaniel.</i> In: Thomas Hockey, Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard A. Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, JoAnn Palmeri, Daniel W. E. Green (Hrsg.): <i>The biographical encyclopedia of astronomers.</i> 2. Auflage, Springer, New York / Heidelberg / Dordrecht / London 2014, ISBN 978-1-4419-9918-4, S. 246–248 (<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_170" class="extiw external" title="doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7 170">doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_170</a>).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Einzelnachweise">Einzelnachweise</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Joseph Foster: <i>Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714.</i> Band 1, James Parker & Co., Oxford 1891, S. 124 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/alumnioxonienses01univuoft/page/124/mode/1up">online</a>).</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Eintrag zu <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA1276&pos=1"><i>Bliss; Nathaniel (1700–1764)</i></a> im Archiv der <i><a href="Royal_Society" title="Royal Society">Royal Society</a></i>, London<span class="editoronly" style="display:none;"></span></span>
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<ul><li>John J. O’Connor, <a href="Edmund_Robertson" title="Edmund Robertson">Edmund F. Robertson</a>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bliss_Nathaniel/"><i>Nathaniel Bliss.</i></a> In: <span lang="en"><i><a href="MacTutor_History_of_Mathematics_archive" title="MacTutor History of Mathematics archive">MacTutor History of Mathematics archive</a></i></span> (englisch).</li></ul>
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