* Astronomy

John Bevis (October 31, 1693 or November 10, 1695, Old Sarum, Wiltshire - November 6, 1771) was an English doctor and astronomer. He is best known for discovering the Crab Nebula in 1731.
Bevis has also observed an occultation by Venus of Mercury on May 28, 1737 NS, (May 17th 1737 OS) and observed and found a prediction rule for eclipses of Jupiter's moons. From observations made with his telescope at Stoke Newington, Middlesex, he compiled a star catalogue (more of an atlas) entitled Uranographia Britannica around 1750.
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