1. Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne. Born 5 Oct Nevil Maskelyne s father died when Nevil was12 years old leaving the family rather poor. He attended Westminster http://www-gap.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 four larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index 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.

2. Nevil Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne (17321811). English astronomer who made observationsto investigate the reliability of the lunar distance method http://astroinfo.port5.com/m/nevil_maskelyne.html

Nevil Maskelyne 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). Site Map Category Main Page About Us

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8. Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne. Interred St Mary s Church, Purton. Nevil Maskelyne s fatherdied when Nevil was 12 years old leaving the family rather poor. http://www.purton.freeserve.co.uk/maskelyne.html

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History of Astronomy Unsorted links Unsorted links (10) Please note that the links were found some time ago and may be outdated meanwhile. This list is not a permanent one. Any link may be moved or deleted without special announcement, and also this file may be deleted. Aviation and Space (women) Gemmary's web-based bulletin board Conversion Between Chinese and Gregorian Calendar Liverpool Astronomical Society ... FACULTY OF PHYSICS also on astronomy; museum PARACELSUS, Five Hundred Years OAR Monte Porzio homepage Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft Astronomy Notes ... Astrotext Folklore and History not yet implemented Electronic Text Archives English version of home page: Koninklijke Bibliotheek The MIT Home Page Museen der Universität Münster: Universitätsarchiv under construction LESTER B. PEARSON COLLEGE OBSERVATORY history under construction Astronomy-VUB/servers ANU - Coombsweb Social Sciences Server Books On-line, Listed by Call Number California Academy of Sciences WWW Server ... Astronomy Book Reviews Astronomy Book Reviews ASTR 103 - Online Resources, Fall 1995

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Nevil Maskelyne Iz Wikipedije, proste enciklopedije. Sir Nevil Maskelyne angleški duhovnik in astronom 5. oktober London Anglija ... 9. februar Maskelyne je od leta študiral matematiko na Univerzi v Cambridgeu in diplomiral leta . Leta so ga sprejeli v Kraljevo družbo Leta ga je Kraljeva družba poslala na otok Sveto Heleno opazovat prehod Venere preko Sončeve ploskve. Leta je spremljal ladjo na Barbados in preskušal metodo z Mayerjevo Lunsko uro. Po vrnitvi so ga izvolili za kraljevega astronoma . Potrdil je, da je Harrisonov prenosni kronometer H4 boljši od Mayerjeve Lunske ure. Ko je britanska vlada razpisala nagrado 20.000 funtov za tistega, ki bi rešil vprašanje merjenja zemljepisnih dolžin na morju, je moral odločiti kako naj se nagrada porazdeli. Odločil je, naj se enako nagradita obe metodi. To je bilo pravično. Manj pravično je bilo, da je Euler od polovice nagrade za Lunino uro prejel prav malo. Ker pa je večji del te polovice dobila Mayerjeva vdova, je treba to manj obžalovati. Leta je objavil prvi del Pomorskega almanaha Nautical Almanac ) in pomagal pri izdajah vse do svoje smrti.

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13. Maskelyne, Nevil Search Biographies Bio search tips maskelyne, nevil mas'kulIn maskelyne, nevil , 17321811, English astronomer. maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0832096.html

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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. Maskelyne's first contribution to astronomical literature was “ A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius ,” published in 1760 (Phil. Trans. li. 889). Subsequent volumes of the same series contained his observations of the transits of Venus (1761 and 1769), on the tides at St Helena (1762), and on various astronomical phenomena at St Helena (1764) and at Barbados (1764). In 1763 he published the “British Mariner's Guide,” which includes the suggestion that in order to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea lunar distances should be calculated beforehand for each year and published in a form accessible to navigators. This important proposal, the germ of the “

16. References For Maskelyne References for nevil maskelyne. Books D Howse, nevil maskelyne Theseaman s astronomer (Cambridge, 1989). Articles EG Forbes, The http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Maskelyne.html

References for Nevil Maskelyne 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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NEVIL MASKELYNE MASKELYNE, NEVIL (I732I8II), English astronomerroyal, was born in London on the 6th of October 1732. Thi 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. MASK MASOLINO DA PANICALE

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