Peder Horrebow
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Danish mathematician and astronomer
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Peder Horrebow's Degrees
- Doctorate Mathematics University of Copenhagen
Why Is Peder Horrebow Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow was a Danish astronomer. Born in Løgstør, Jutland to a poor family of fishermen, Horrebow entered the University of Copenhagen in 1703. He worked his way through grammar school and university by virtue of his technical knowledge: he repaired mechanical and musical instruments and cut seals. He received his MA from the university in 1716, and his MD in 1725. From 1703 to 1707, he served as an assistant to Ole Rømer and lived in Rømer's home. He worked as a household tutor from 1707 to 1711 to a Danish baron, and entered the governmental bureaucracy as an excise writer in 1711.
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