John Hadley

For other people named John Hadley, see John Hadley (disambiguation).

John Hadley
Born(1682-04-16)16 April 1682
Bloomsbury, London
Died14 February 1744(1744-02-14) (aged 61)
East Barnet, Hertfordshire
NationalityEnglish
Known forOctant

John Hadley (16 April 1682 – 14 February 1744) was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same.[1]

Biography

He was born in Bloomsbury, London the eldest son of George Hadley of Osidge, East Barnet, Hertfordshire and his wife Katherine FitzJames.[2] His younger brother George Hadley became a noted meteorologist.

In 1717 John became a member (and later vice-president) of the Royal Society of London. In 1729 he inherited his father's East Barnet estate.[3]

He died in East Barnet in 1744 and is buried in the local churchyard with other members of his family. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hodges, FRS (former Attorney General of Barbados) and had one child, a son and heir John, born in 1738.

Work

In 1730 Hadley invented the reflecting octant, which could be used to measure the altitude of the sun or other celestial objects above the horizon at sea. A mobile arm carrying a mirror and pivoting on a graduated arc provides a reflected image of the celestial body overlapping the image of the horizon, which is observed directly.[4] If the position of the object on the sky and the time of the observation are known, it is easy for the user to calculate his own latitude. The octant proved extremely valuable for navigation and displaced the use of other instruments such as the Davis quadrant. An American, Thomas Godfrey, independently invented the octant at approximately the same time.

Hadley also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes. In 1721 he showed the first parabolic Newtonian telescope to the Royal Society.[5] This Newtonian, with a 6-inch-diameter (150 mm) primary mirror, compared favorably with the large aerial refracting telescopes of the day.[6] He also made Gregorian telescopes with accurately shaped mirrors.[7][8]

Honors

Mons Hadley and Rima Hadley on the Moon are named after him. The Oasis Trust Academy in Ponders End in north London is called Oasis Academy Hadley in his honour.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1870.
  2. ^ "East Barnet". 1885.
  3. ^ "John Hadley". Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. ^ Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy: Picture of Hadley's octant [1]
  5. ^ amazing-space.stsci.edu - Hadley’s Reflector
  6. ^ The complete Amateur Astronomer - John Hadley's Reflector
  7. ^ Henry C. King - The history of the telescope - page 77
  8. ^ telescopeѲptics.net - 8.2. Two-mirror telescopes
  9. ^ Oasis Academy in NE Enfield Archived 22 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 5 February 2009

Further reading

Wikisource has the text of a 1920 Encyclopedia Americana article about John Hadley.

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