Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3840. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer Royal, born in London, England, his interest in astronomy had begun after seeing the eclipse of 1748. After a mathematics education at Cambridge, he was sent by the Royal Society in 1761 to St Helena to observe the transit of Venus. In 1764 he traveled to Barbados, testing JOHN HARRISON's chronometer, and was appointed Astronomer Royal on his return. He initiated publication of the Nau...

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