Joseph Betts was an English mathematician.
He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford in 1765.
[1] Betts was an undergraduate and Fellow of University College, Oxford, where he was a tutor of William Jones.
He thanked his patrons for that failed attempt in the dedication to an engraving of the annular solar eclipse of 1 April 1764.
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