James Rennell
1742–1830
Geographer and oceanographer. Royal Navy, 1756–63; surveyor, East India Company, 1764–77. Published on the geography of Asia, North Africa, and the currents of the North Atlantic. Awarded the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London, 1791. FRS 1781.
Source
Baker 1963, DSB.
Bibliography
Baker, John Norman Leonard. 1963. The history of geography: papers by J. N. L. Baker. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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