Anders Anton von Stiernman later transferred to the Swedish National Archives. He made research trips in 1722 to Copenhagen and in 1724 the Baltic provinces. In 1732 he was promoted to actuary and 1740 to secretary to the director. In 1743 he was ennobled as "von Stiernman". In 1745 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 1747 became the Secretary. He died on March 2, 1765. His manuscripts were acquired after his death by Uppsala University Library and through purchase and partly through the donation of his son, Olof Celsius von Stiernman. Anders Anton von Stiernman Anders Anton
George Bishop (astronomer) long period of physical illness, but during which he retained his mental faculties, Bishop died on 14 June 1861 at the age of 76. George Bishop (astronomer) George Bishop (Leicester, 21 August 1785 – 14 June 1861), was a noted English astronomer of the nineteenth century. At the age of eighteen Bishop entered a British wine-making business in London, subsequently becoming its proprietor, during his tenure at which the business was so successful that its excise returns were said to exhibit half of all home-made wines as of his manufacture. Bishop's scientific career began with his admission to the Royal