John Hellins

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John Hellins was born in Devon c. 1749, and won the Royal Society's most prestigious award, the Copley Medal, in 1799. The son of a cooper, he became a schoolteacher and through hard work and patronage became assistant to Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal in 1773. He went on to become a clergyman and noted mathematician, becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1796. Just three years later he was awarded the prestigious Copley Medal largely for his paper on computing the perturbations of planets.

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