Arthur Storer.

About Arthur Storer

Arthur Storer (1645–1687) was a pioneering astronomer in colonial British America, remembered today chiefly for his association and correspondence with Isaac Newton. Storer was born in Buckminster, Leicestershire, England, but moved to Grantham, Lincolnshire shortly after, due to his widowed mother remarrying apothecary William Clarke who worked across the border. He eventually emigrated as an adult to Calvert County, in the Province of Maryland. He carried out careful astronomical observations using self-made instruments, and has been described as "the first astronomer in the American colonies" and as "Maryland's first scientist". His most notable observations were those of the Great Comet of 1680 and of the Comet of 1682. Storer shared his observations with Newton, who used them in his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica of 1687.