Joseph Harris (1704-64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer
and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to
the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some
time making astronomical observations in South America and the West
Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice,
proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very
popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He
later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered
the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749.
This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist
J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on
the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it
is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in
its coinage remains constant.
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