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Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804. Artist: Unknown

Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804. Artist: Unknown

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Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804. 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 establishing the Nautical Almanack in 1766. In the background is Flamsteed House, the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park.

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  1. Nevil Maskelyne: British, English: Astronomer
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  1. 51 29 00 N , 000 00 00 E
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