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Nevil Maskelyne, fifth British Astronomer Royal, (1815).Artist: Page
Nevil Maskelyne, fifth British Astronomer Royal, (1815). Maskelyne (1732-1811) was Astronomer Royal from 1765-1811. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758. Maskelyne proposed a means of calculating longitude based on measuring lunar distances and publishing them in a form accessible to navigators, leading to him establish the Nautical Almanack in 1766.
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18th century
19th century
ARTS
Astronomer
Astronomer Royal
Astronomy
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Book
Britain
British
country
eighteenth century
England
English
Engraving
Flamsteed House
JOB
Literature
LOCATION
LONGITUDE
Male
Man
Maskelyne
Men
Monochrome
Nautical Almanack
Navigation
Nevil
Nevil Maskelyne
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Observatory
OCCUPATION
PAGE
People
Portrait
Print Collector1
PROFESSION
Royal Observatory
Science
Scientist
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