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Encyclopedia Maskelyne, Nevil u l I n] Pronunciation Key Maskelyne, Nevil , English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed astronomer royal at the Royal Observatory in 1765, he held this post for 46 years. He introduced the determination of longitude by lunar distances into English navigation, calculated these distances annually, and had them and other pertinent observations published in the Nautical Almanac, the first of which was available in 1766. At Schiehallion, a mountain in Scotland, he devised a method of measuring the mean density of the earth by using a pendulum. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Maskat Maslow, Abraham H. Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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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

24. Maskelyne Biography of nevil maskelyne (17321811) nevil maskelyne. Born 5 Oct 1732 in London, England nevil maskelyne's father died when nevil 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 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.

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26. Maskelyne, Nevil maskelyne, nevil. English astronomer. He made observations to investigate thereliability of the lunar distance method for determining longitude at sea. http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0009745.html

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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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Encyclopedia Maskelyne, Nevil u l I n] Pronunciation Key Maskelyne, Nevil , English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Appointed astronomer royal at the Royal Observatory in 1765, he held this post for 46 years. He introduced the determination of longitude by lunar distances into English navigation, calculated these distances annually, and had them and other pertinent observations published in the Nautical Almanac, the first of which was available in 1766. At Schiehallion, a mountain in Scotland, he devised a method of measuring the mean density of the earth by using a pendulum. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Maskat Maslow, Abraham H. Print this page Cite this page AD AD AD ADS Link to Fact Monster Add Fact Monster search to your site ... Privacy Brought to you by:

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Broadband FilmFour Text Only TV Listings ... Home Jasper Maskelyne Find out more Other Real Lives Credits Magic at War Jasper Maskelyne Jasper Maskelyne is no longer a household name but, when Tom Cruise plays him in his forthcoming film, The War Magician , that might change. In 1930s Britain, Maskelyne was a star magician, and, when the Second World War broke out, his sleight of hand techniques came in useful during the campaign to beat the German army in north Africa. The Channel 4 programme, Magic at War , part of the Secret History series, tells the astonishing story of how one magician helped defeat Rommel. Family business Born in 1902, Jasper Maskelyne could trace his ancestry back to the 18th-century Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne. More immediately, he was the third in a line of stage magicians. John Nevil Maskelyne, his grandfather, trained as a watchmaker before enjoying a 30-year reign as Victorian England's most celebrated stage magician. He and his partner George Cooke billed themselves as Royal Illusionists and Anti-Spiritualists, and delighted in exposing the 'supernatural' feats of spiritualist mediums. He also put his mechanical aptitude to more practical uses, patenting inventions such as the coin-operated lavatory door. After Cooke's death, he teamed up with a younger illusionist, David Devant, who went on to work with Jasper Maskelyne's father, Nevil Maskelyne.

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Encyclopedia Dictionary Thesaurus The Web eBooks loadkeyword("Nevil Maskelyne"); Nevil Maskelyne Encyclopedia Definition: Nevil Maskelyne Nevil Maskelyne October 6 February 9 ) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal . He held the office from to The solar eclipse of made a deep impression upon him; and having graduated as seventh wrangler from Trinity College, Cambridge , in , he determined to devote himself wholly to astronomy . He became intimate with James Bradley in , and in was deputed by the Royal Society to make observations of the transit of Venus at Saint Helena . During the voyage he experimented upon the determination of longitude by lunar distances, and ultimately effected the introduction of the method into navigation . In he succeeded Nathaniel Bliss as Astronomer Royal. Having energetically discharged the duties of his office during forty-six years, he died on February 9 A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius , published in Phil. Trans. ii. 889). Subsequent volumes of the same series contained his observations of the transits of Venus (1761 and ), on the tides at Saint Helena (

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