Samuel Arthur Saunder
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Samuel Arthur Saunder (1852 – December 8, 1912) was a British mathematician and selenographer who taught at Wellington College, Berkshire. In 1894 he became a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1908 he was made Gresham Professor of Astronomy giving public lectures on the subject.[1]
Saunder was one of the first to use photography of the Moon to measure and triangulate its features.[2] He was also responsible for pointing out the confused state of lunar nomenclature at the beginning of the 20th century, and initiating the process of standardizing the names of lunar features.[3] The crater Saunder on the Moon was named after him in 1935.[4][5]
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