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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Roger Long (1680 – 16 December 1770) was an English astronomer, and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1733 and 1770.Roger Long was the son of Thomas Long of Croxton, Norfolk. He was educated in Norwich before being admitted to Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1696/7. Graduating BA in 1700/1, he became a fellow of Pembroke. He was ordained in 1716, and became Rector of Orton Waterville. He became a Doctor of Divinity in 1728, and Master of Pembroke in 1733. From 1750 until 1770 he was the first holder of the Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy.One of the great characters of eighteenth-century Cambridge, he built a \