James Short
1710 - 1768
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Tristram Clarke, ‘Short, James (1710–1768)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25459, accessed 7 July 2015]
BiographyJames Short (1710 – 1768) was a Scottish mathematician, optician and telescope maker.
