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Maskelyne, Nevil English astronomer who made observations to investigate the reliability of the lunar distance method for determining longitude at sea. In 1774 he estimated the mass of the Earth by noting the deflection of a plumb line near Mount Schiehallion in Scotland. Maskelyne, the fifth Astronomer Royal 1765-1811, began publication 1766 of the Nautical Almanac. This contained astronomical tables and navigational aids, and was probably his most enduring contribution to astronomy. Maskelyne was born in London and studied at Cambridge. He was ordained a cleric but began working at the Greenwich Observatory in London. His first big project in observational astronomy was an expedition to St Helena, under the auspices of the Royal Society, in order to study the solar parallax during the 1761 transit of Venus. At the appropriate moment, however, the weather turned bad and, in any case, he had lost confidence in the instruments he had brought with him. It was not until 1772 that Maskelyne perfected his technique for observing transits, by which time the 1769 transit of Venus had already occurred (and the next would not take place in his lifetime).

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31. Maskelyne Biography of nevil maskelyne (17321811) nevil maskelyne s father died whennevil was 12 years old leaving the family rather poor. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Maskelyne.html

Nevil Maskelyne Born: 5 Oct 1732 in London, England Died: 9 Feb 1811 in Greenwich, England Click the picture above to see five larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Nevil Maskelyne 's father died when Nevil was 12 years old leaving the family rather poor. He attended Westminster School and was still being educated there when his mother died in 1748. Just before the death of his mother his interest in astronomy had begun after seeing the eclipse of 25 July 1748. Maskelyne writing about his school education said:- Great mathematicians have become astronomers from the facility mathematics gave them in the attainment of astronomy; but here the love of astronomy was the motive of application to mathematics without which our astronomer soon found he could not make the progress he wished in his favourite science; in a few months, without any assistance he made himself master of the elements of geometry and algebra. With these helps he soon read the principal books in astronomy and optics and also in ... mechanics, pneumatics and hydrostatics. The considerable progress he had made in these sciences led him naturally to the University of Cambridge... Maskelyne entered Cambridge in 1749 where he studied mathematics and graduated seventh wrangler in mathematics in 1754. He was ordained a minister in 1755. Then he became a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge in 1756.

32. References For Maskelyne References for the biography of nevil maskelyne. AW Lane Hall, nevil maskelyne,J. British Asrtonomical Association 43 (1932), 6777. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Maskelyne.html

References for Nevil Maskelyne Version for printing Books: D Howse, Nevil Maskelyne: The seaman's astronomer (Cambridge, 1989). Articles: E G Forbes, The correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev Nevil Maskelyne (1802-5), Annals of Science A W Lane Hall, Nevil Maskelyne, J. British Asrtonomical Association G S Leadstone, Maskelyne's Schehallien experiment of 1774, Physics Education Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR February 1997 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland The URL of this page is: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/References/Maskelyne.html

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36. Chasing Venus: Observing The Transits Of Venus 1631-2004 nevil maskelyne (17311811) Instructions relative to the observations of the nevil maskelyne, Astronomer Royal from 1765 to 1811 (from a portrait by Van http://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/chasing-venus/cf/venus_by_section.cfm?voyage_a

37. [Letter] 1769 December 19, Greenwich (U.K.) [to] John Nourse / N. Maskelyne. maskelyne, nevil, 17321811 ; Nourse, John. ; Bird, John, 1709-1776. Royal GreenwichObservatory. Book industries and trade; Printing industry. English. http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/remain/1228/

[Letter] 1769 December 19, Greenwich (U.K.) [to] John Nourse / N. Maskelyne. Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811. 1769 December 19. [1] leaf. 20 x 32 cm. folded to 20 x 16 cm. Greenwich and date at head of letter and above address on verso of page two. Address on verso of page two reads To Mr. John Nourse, Bookseller to his Majesty or in his absence to his Shop-man, Opposite Catherine Street, In the Strand (London) . Maskelyne reports that one of Nourse's shop-men informed him that they had received 400 copies of Bird's construction of mural quadrants and 400 copies of the method of dividing, 200 of which were missing plates. Maskelyne encloses 100 of the missing plates, surmising that 300 of these must have been delivered to the recipient already. In a postscript, Maskelyne states that the 1771 nautical almanac should be ready in a fortnight, and he requests the delivery of tracts to the bearer. A mathematician and an astronomer, Maskelyne was a fellow of the Royal Society and in 1765 was appointed Astronomer Royal, director of the Greenwich observatory; in this post he was responsible for producing nautical almanacs, which he did from 1767 to 1811. Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811 ; Nourse, John. ; Bird, John, 1709-1776.

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Shop Tour Printed Catalogues Recent Publications Contacts ... Shopping Basket Search Rare Book Catalogue for Ref: Change Currency document.writeln ('') document.writeln ('') MASKELYNE, Nevil (1732-1811). Astronomer Royal. "HE BEING A NEW COMPUTER" 1 page small 4to, Greenwich, 25 June 1777. Send this title to your inbox Nevil Maskelyne was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1765, a position he held for forty-six years, until his death. He was responsible for important developments in both methods and instruments of observation, and in 1774 was able to measure the earth's density. He had himself established the Nautical Almanac in 1766, and superintended its annual publication until his death. This essential aid to navigation is still produced annually, by Her Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office. The word computer originally meant a person making calculations, just as the word typewriter originally described the person operating the machine, not the machine itself. Recently Viewed Translate this page top bottom Recently Viewed (1) ... Clodd Library

40. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal nevil maskelyne, Fifth Astronomer Royal was grandfather by marriage to BP s Uncle nevil maskelyne is buried in an elaborate vault with several elegant http://www.pinetreeweb.com/bp-nevil-maskelyne.htm

Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) Fifth Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, Fifth Astronomer Royal was grandfather by marriage to B-P's Uncle Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, brother of Henrietta Grace Smyth Baden-Powell. From: Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th Edition, 1910. MASKELYNE, NEVIL (1732-1811), English astronomer-royal, was born in London on the 6th of October 1732. The solar eclipse of 1748 made a deep impression upon him; and having graduated as seventh wrangler from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1754, he determined to devote himself wholly to astronomy. He became intimate with James Bradley in 1755, and in 1761 was deputed by the Royal Society to make observations of the transit of Venus at St Helena. During the voyage he experimented upon the determination of longitude by lunar distances, and ultimately effected the introduction of the method into navigation (q.v.). In 1765 he succeeded Nathaniel Bliss as astronomer-royal. Having energetically discharged the duties of his office during forty-six years, he died on the 9th of February 1811. A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius Nautical Almanac Nautical Almanac for 1767 ft. in

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