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 a larger version 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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GMT Time: here Nevil Maskelyne: NOT IN MY NAME? Click HERE Greenwich England More Travelling to Europe? Hotel, theater deals PRESS HERE Rev. Nevil Maskelyne (1732—1811) Fifth Astronomer Royal (1765—1811) Born: 1732, London, England Died: 1811 Buried: St Mary the Virgin, Purton, Wiltshire Astronomer Royal: 1765 - 1811 A graduate of Trinity College Cambridge, Nevil Maskelyne became assistant to the then Astronomer Royal, Bradley in 1757. He was ordained in 1755 but never took a post in the Church. In 1761 he was sent by the Royal Society to the island of St Helena to observe the transit of Venus, with the aim of using this information to calculate the distance of the Earth from the Sun. Bad weather prevented any useful observations being made, however Maskelyne used his journey to develop a method of calculating longitude called the lunar distance method. A vested interest in an astronomical solution to the longitude problem could have been seen as a conflict of interests, but this did not stop the Board of Longitude sending Maskelyne to Barbados in 1763 to test Harrison 's No. 4 timekeeper.

3. 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

Nevil Maskelyne Born: 5 Oct 1732 in London, England Died: 9 Feb 1811 in Greenwich, England . Interred St Mary's Church, Purton 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. Nevil's yearly holidays from Greenwich were spent at the Ponds at Purton Stoke. His family had inherited and used properties in Purton and Purton Stoke. Members of the Maskelyne family have held property in the Lydiards since 1435. William Maskelyne of Purton began a family connection with this village, which endured for over three centuries. 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 ant 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.

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7. Neue Seite 1 Translate this page Kl., korr. M. 1808. maskelyne nevil Story, *1823 Basset Down House, Wiltshire,† 1911, Mineralogie, Professor, Oxford, Math.-phys. Kl., korr. M. 1895. http://www.badw.de/GeistundGestalt/verstorbL-Z.htm

Verstorbene Mitglieder der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften L-Z (Ausführliche Würdigungen der Verstorbenen werden in den Jahrbüchern der Akademie veröffentlicht) La Rosée Johann Caspar Aloys Graf Basselet de, *1747 München, † 1826, kurf. Kämmerer und Hofrat, sp. Präsident des Oberappellationsgerichts, München, EM 1772, Belletr. Kl., o. M. 1779, nach 1786 wieder EM. Lacépède Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville-sur-Illon Comte de, *1756 Agen, Dept. Lot et Garonne, † 1825, Botanik, Professor am Jardin des Plantes, Paris, Math.-phys. Kl., ausw. M. 1808. Lacerda Antonio Correia de, *1777 Via da Ponte, Portugal, † 1852, Medizin, Arzt, Pará, Brasilien, Math.-phys. Kl., korr. M. 1821. Lachmann Karl, *1793 Braunschweig, † 1851, klassische und altdeutsche Philologie, o. Univ.-Professor, Berlin, Philos.-philol. Kl., ausw. M. 1841. Lackner Johann Baptist, O.S.B., *1735 Salzburg, † 1781, Archivar, Niederalteich, NB, Hist. Kl., ao. M. 1779. Lacomblet Theodor Joseph, *1789 Düsseldorf, † 1866, Geschichte, Archivrat, Düsseldorf, Hist. Kl., korr. M. 1858.

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Nevil Maskelyne Born: 5 Oct 1732 in London, England Died: 9 Feb 1811 in Greenwich, England Click the picture above to see a larger version 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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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/history/References/Maskelyne.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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document.write(""); MASKELYNE, NEVIL on the 1st of August, and Lady Masham then retired into private life. She died on the 6th of December 1734. Lady Masham was by no means the vulgar, ill-educated person she was represented to have been by her defeated rival, the duchess of Marlborough; her extant letters, showing not a little refinement of literary style, prove the reverse. Swift, with whom both she and her husband were intimate, describes Lady Masham as “a person of a plain sound understanding, of great truth and sincerity, without the least mixture of falsehood or disguise.” The barony of Masham became extinct when Lady Masham’s son, Samuel, the 2nd baron, died in June 1776. AUTH0RITIE5—Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time, vol. vi. (2nd ed., 6 vols., Oxford, 1833); F. W. Wyon, History of Great Britain during the Reign of Queen Anne (2 vols., London, 1876); Earl Stanhope, History of England, coin prising the Reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht (London, 1870), and History of England from the Peace of Utrecht, vol. i. (7 vols., London, 1836—1854); Justin McCarthy, The Reign of Queen Anne (2 vols, London, 1902); An A ccount of the Conduct of the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough from first coming to Court to 1710, edited by Nathaniel Hooke, with an anonymous reply entitled A Review of a Late Treatise (London, 1842); Private Correspondence of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (2 vols., London, 1838); Letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (London, i875); Mrs Arthur Colville, Duchess Sarah (London, 1904). Numerous references to Lady Masham will also be found scattered through Swift’s Works (2nd ed., 19 vols., Edinburgh, 1824).

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