About Robert Alaine
Lived 1558 – 1603 (aged 44–45). Robert Alaine was an astronomer.
Robert Alaine (fl. ca. 1576) held an office under a nobleman in the time of Queen Elizabeth, and is now only known for an elaborate treatise, Alaine's Astronomy, on astronomical instruments, which is preserved in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge. It was given to the library by Sir Edward Stanhope.
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astronomer and writer
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Robert Alaine was born in 1558.
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Robert Alaine died in 1603.
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Robert Alaine was an astronomer.
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