Roger Long
Roger Long (1680 – 16 December 1770) was an English astronomer, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1733 and 1770.
Roger Long was the son of Thomas Long of
Orton Waterville. He became a Doctor of Divinity in 1728, and Master of Pembroke in 1733. From 1750 until 1770 he was the first holder of the Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy.[2]
One of the great characters of eighteenth-century Cambridge, he built a "water-work" in his garden and paddled round it on a water-cycle. He also constructed a "zodiack", now considered to be the first planetarium, a hollow sphere that could hold thirty people showing the movements of the planets and constellations which remained in the grounds of Pembroke until 1871.
References
- ^ Liba Taub, ‘Long, Roger (1680–1770)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 2 Oct 2013
- ^ a b "Long, Roger (LN696R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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