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About Thomas Godfrey
Thomas Godfrey was a glazier and self-taught mathematician and astronomer in the Pennsylvania Colony, who invented the octant in 1730. A similar octant was also independently invented about the same time by John Hadley in London with Hadley receiving the greater share of the credit for development.
Everything about Thomas Godfrey →- Occupation
- inventor, glazier
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1704, January 10, 1704
- Died
- December 1749