Charles Green (astronomer)
Charles Green (1735 – January 29,1771) was a British astronomer, noted for his assignment by the Royal Society in 1768 to the expedition sent to the Pacific Ocean in order to observe the transit of Venus, aboard James Cook's Endeavour.
A farmer's son, he became assistant to the Astronomer Royal in Greenwich in in 1761, before joining the navy and Cook's expedition.
He died of a fever in Batavia in 1771, during the crew's voyage back to England.
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