Arthur Storer (c. 1648 - 1686) was America's first colonial astronomer. He came to Calvert County, Maryland, from Lincolnshire, England. He was among the first observers to sight and record data about a magnificent comet that passed over Patuxent skies in 1682. His detailed observations of the comet were very helpful to Isaac Newton, who quoted Storer's data repeatedly in his great scientific work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Wikipedia
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