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data:
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      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: 'Personen zu Geodäsie, Kartografie (19.2p)'
      uri: http://d-nb.info/standards/vocab/gnd/gnd-sc#19.2p
    - authority: gnd
      intro: acti
      lang: ger
      text: Geodät
      uri: http://d-nb.info/gnd/4156667-1
  bioDates:
    - end: 1786
      lang: und
      start: 1728
      text: 1728-1786
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      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Clustered authority record
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      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DBPD
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Charles_Mason
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: SUDO
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://www.idref.fr/123622514/id
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: DNBI
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Authority record
      searchTerm: http://d-nb.info/gnd/119554062
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: WIKI
      searchTerm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason
      typeOfResource: info
    - code: WDAT
      note:
        - lang: eng
          text: Wikidata description set
      searchTerm: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1065484
      typeOfResource: same
    - code: LINK
      note:
        - lang: und
          text: 'Cropped illustration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mason" class="extiw" title="w:Charles Mason">Charles Mason</a> surveying the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line" class="extiw" title="w:Mason-Dixon line">Mason-Dixon line</a>, circa 1763-1768. (Neither Mason nor Dixon are clearly labeled as such, but this figure is positioned at left and is handling a map that may be Mason&apos;s <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Plan_of_the_West_Line_or_Parallel_of_Latitude_-_WDL.png" title="File:A Plan of the West Line or Parallel of Latitude - WDL.png">"A Plan of the West Line or Parallel of Latitude"</a>. The illustration was created long after they were both dead, so the image is more a representation than an exact likeness anyway.)'
      rights: 'Illustrator unknown; published by Ginn and Company. / <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/fk40r9md84&amp;view=1up&amp;seq=112">Page 92</a> of <i>The Leading Facts of American History</i> (1910 edition) by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Henry_Montgomery" class="extiw" title="w:David Henry Montgomery">D. H. Montgomery</a>. -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mason and Dixon (just Mason).png'
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      typeOfResource: dpct
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    - auth: GND
      country: DE
      date: 20080406
      id: 119554062
    - auth: ESTC
      country: GB
      id: tb030071
  foundIn:
    - "DNB=Mason, Charles, 1730-1787.2; astronomer, James Bradley's assistant at Greenwich"
    - NUC
    - LoC
  generalNote:
    - lang: ger
      text: Brit. Geodät
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    - authority: iso3166
      intro: geon
      lang: und
      text: GB
  heading:
    - part:
        - entry: Mason
        - firstname: Charles
      usedBy:
        - GyFmDB
    - part:
        - entry: Mason
        - firstname: Charles
      usedBy:
        - ESTC(AACR2)
    - part:
        - entry: Mason
        - firstname: Charles
        - addition: 'Astronomer, Greenwich'
      usedBy:
        - ESTC(GK)
  imprintSource:
    - title: "T075698: Mayer's lunar tables improved by Mr. Charles Mason, 1787"
  previousId:
    - cnp00035612
  typeOfEntry: 0
meta:
  distinctFrom:
    - cnp00035613
  history:
    - timestamp: 2004-09-22T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2004-10-28T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2005-03-12T06:33:04Z
    - timestamp: 2007-02-02T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-05-03T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-08-21T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2019-09-25T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2024-02-08T12:00:00Z
  status: n