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Ernest William Brown was born in Hull in Yorkshire on November 19th 1866, he was educated at the East Riding College in Hull however while there he showed such an aptitiude for mathematics. Although a Yorkshire man he would spend most of his life in America. Between 1907 and 1919 Brown produced his monumental Brown’s Tables of the Motions of the Moon.
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