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Henry Harington

Henry Harington
© National Portrait Gallery
Short Name: Henry Harington
Full Name: Harington, Henry, 1727-1816
Birth Year: 1727
Death Year: 1816

Born: September 29, 1727, Kelston, Somerset, England.
Died: January 15, 1816, Bath, Somerset, England.
Buried: Kelston, Somerset, England.

Harington, a physician, was mayor of Bath, England, in 1793, and founded the Harmonic Society there.

"A tablet was erected to his memory in Bath Abbey, on which is a curious mathematical figure highly suggestive of a proposition in Euclid, but which is really a design showing the ratios of the vibration numbers in the various intervals of the major scale."

Lightwood, p. 358

--www.hymntime.com/tch


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