Died probably England, 1794
Samuel Dunn was a London teacher of mathematics and cartographer. He observed the 1761 Venus transit in search of planetary satellites, but found none.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Dunn, Samuel. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_9049
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