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Maskelyne, Nevil
maskelyne, nevil 17321811, English astronomer. maskelyne received hiseducation at Westminster School and Trinity College. maskelyne, nevil.
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Extractions: Maskelyne, Nevil 1732-1811, English astronomer. Maskelyne received his education at Westminster School and Trinity College. Appointed astronomer royal at Greenwich 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 Schieballion, a mountain in England, he devised a method of measuring the mean density of the earth by using a pendulum.
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Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal
nevil maskelyne, Astronomer Royal. maskelyne, nevil (17321811), Englishastronomer-royal, was born in London on the 6th of October 1732.
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Extractions: Fifth Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, Fifth Astronomer Royal was grandfather by marriage to B-P's Uncle Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, brother of Henrietta Grace Smyth Baden-Powell. From: Encyclopaedia Britannica , 11th Edition, 1910. MASKELYNE, NEVIL (1732-1811), English astronomer-royal, was born in London on the 6th of October 1732. The 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. Maskelyne's first contribution to astronomical literature was A Proposal for Discovering the Annual Parallax of Sirius , published in 1760 (Phil. Trans. li. 889). Subsequent volumes of the same series contained his observations of the transits of Venus (1761 and 1769), on the tides at St Helena (1762), and on various astronomical phenomena at St Helena (1764) and at Barbados (1764). In 1763 he published the British Mariner's Guide, which includes the suggestion that in order to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea lunar distances should be calculated beforehand for each year and published in a form accessible to navigators. This important proposal, the germ of the
B-P's Uncle: Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, MA, FRS
daughter of Anthony Mervyn Storeymaskelyne, MA, FRS, JP, DL Brecon of Basset Down,Wiltshire by Margaret, only daughter of nevil maskelyne, Astronomer Royal
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Extractions: Original home of the Royal School of Mines Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth SIR WARINGTON WILKINSON SMYTH , (1817-1890), British geologist, was born at Naples on the 26th of August 1817, his father, Admiral W. H. Smyth (1788-1865), being at the time engaged in the Admiralty Survey of the Mediterranean. He was educated at Westminster and Bedford schools, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1839. Having gained a travelling scholarship he spent more than four years in Europe Asia Minor , Syria and Egypt, paying great attention to mineralogy and mining, examining coalfields, metalliferous mines and salt-works, and making acquaintance with many distinguished geologists and mineralogists. On his return to England in 1844 he was appointed mining geologist in the Geological Survey, and in 1851 lecturer at the School of Mines, a post which he held until 1881 when he relinquished the chair of mineralogy but continued as professor of mining. In later years he became chief mineral inspector to the Office of Woods and Forests, and also to the Duchy of Cornwall. He was elected F.R.S. in 1858. He became president of the Geological Society of London in 1866-1868, and in 1879 he was chairman of a Royal Commission appointed to inquire into accidents in mines, the work in connection with which continued until 1886. He contributed sundry papers to the
Greenwich Past: Nevil Maskelyne
nevil maskelyne. Fifth Astronomer Royal. Born 1732, London, England Died 1811Buried St Mary's Church, Puton, Wiltshire Astronomer Royal 1765 1811.
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Newton; James Bradley 174262, discoverer of optical aberration giving the firstdirect empirical evidence for the Copernican system; nevil maskelyne 1765-1811
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Extractions: PRESS HERE Greenwich Royal Astronomers Men with vision who have left their mark on history For the almost three centuries from the appointment of John Flamsteed in 1675 to the retirement of Richard Woolley in 1971, the office of Director of the Royal Observatory and the title Astronomer Royal were deemed inseparable (although just at the outset there had been slight variability in the title's wording). Flamsteed and his successors were all among Britain's most distinguished scientists. They included Edmond Halley , in office 1720-42, probably the greatest scientist of the generation after Newton James Bradley 1742-62, discoverer of optical aberration giving the first direct empirical evidence for the Copernican system; Nevil Maskelyne 1765-1811, who was the first scientist to weigh the Earth; Sir George Airy 1835-81, who personally performed most of the functions nowadays requiring a string of research councils; and Sir Frank Dyson 1910-33, who organised the observations at the 1919 solar eclipse that led to the acceptance of the modification of Newton's law of gravitation proposed by Einstein.
Series 63.51 Note Received By Nevil Maskelyne From Banks, 28 April 1801
Note received by nevil maskelyne from Banks, 28 April 1801 (Series 63.51). NotesIncludes nevil maskelyne's reply, ca 28 April 1801. maskelyne, nevil, 17321811.
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Extractions: Notes: Includes Nevil Maskelyne's reply, ca 28 April 1801 Author: Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743-1820 Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811 Date: 28 April 1801 Series title: Series 63: Correspondence being mainly letters received by Banks from various persons, concerning the fitting out of HMS Investigator , Matthew Flinders, 1800-1801 Frame numbers: CY 3009 / 134 Subjects: Astronomers Royal
Series 66.14 Letter Received By Banks From Nevil Maskelyne, 4 February 1808
Letter received by Banks from nevil maskelyne, 4 February 1808 (Series 66.14).Notes Author maskelyne, nevil, 17321811. Date 4 February 1808.
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Extractions: Notes: Author: Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811 Date: 4 February 1808 Series title: Series 66: `Letters about Captn Flinders while a prisoner on Isle of France [Mauritius], 1804-1808 Frame numbers: CY 3009 / 347 CY 3009 / 348 CY 3009 / 349 Subjects: Astronomers Royal Investigator (ship) Great Britain. Board of Longitude Comets
Adventures In CyberSound: Maskelyne, John Nevil
ADVENTURES in CYBERSOUND. John nevil maskelyne 1839 1917. Our Magic. by nevilmaskelyne and David Devant and reviewed in 1997 by Steve Bryant. Preface.
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Extractions: John Nevil Maskelyne : 1839 - 1917 Maskelyne, Cooke and Devant John Nevil Maskelyne (1839-1917) was one of the greatest British magicians, particularly in the field of stage illusions created through sleight of hand. He trained as a watchmaker, which presumably gave him a thorough grounding in the art of precision, and first came to public attention in 1865 when he and his partner George A.Cooke exposed "American spiritualist mediums" the Davenport Brothers as frauds. Maskelyne and Cooke established their own theatre in 1873, and became famous for their shows which blended comedy, illusion and conjuring tricks (they billed themselves as 'Royal Illusionists and Anti-Spiritualists', making it clear that they were in the business of illusion rather than pseudo-religious fakery). They subsequently influenced countless magicians, including the young , who would adapt many of Maskelyne and Cooke's techniques in his own stage productions, and then further into the cinema. Cooke died in 1904, after which Maskelyne teamed up with the legendary magician
Adventures In CyberSound: Magic Machines: 1896 - 1900
Devised by (The) Wizard of Piccadilly, Magician, John nevil maskelyne 'An ImprovedApparatus for Securing, or Exhibiting in Series, Records of Successive
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Extractions: Magic Machines : A History of the Moving Image from Antiqity to 1900 Antiquity - 1825 Biophonographe - 1896 Devised by August Baron - "a system serving to record and reproduce simultaneously both visual scenes and sound" . Toulet, E, 'Cinema is 100 Years Old' Photoscenograph - 1896 Camera devised by to make sequences of photographs as the basis for his hand painted Pantomimes Lumineuses which in turn were projected in his Chronophotographe - 1896 Camera and projector devised by - 60mm film - based on Bioscope camera by Chase's Electric Cyclorama - 1896 "In our illustration, we give a general view of the electric cyclorama, or panorama, as conceived by the inventor, Mr Chase of Chicago. The projection apparatus, suspended in the center of the panorama by a steel tube and guys of steel wire, is 8 feet in diameter. The operator stands within the apparatus and is surrounded by an annular table supporting eight double projectors, lanterns and all the arrangements necessary for imparting life to a panorama 300 feet in circumference and over 30 feet in height. It is possible at will to animate such and such a part of the view by combining this apparatus with the Edison kinetoscope or the Lumiere kinematograph." Scientific American February 1896 Posted to the Dead Media Site by Paul Di Filippo Eidoloscope - 1896 Projector devised by Colonel Woodville Latham and sons Otway and Gray 'Improvement in Means or Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures of Moving Objects by Projecting Them on a Screen or other Surface'. British Patent 4841. Filed March 3, 1896. Issued February 13, 1897 - film travels continuously - revolving shutter.
Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811)
nevil maskelyne (October 6, 1732 February 9, 1811). References KennethGlyn Jones, 1991. Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters. 2nd
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Deep Sky Astronomers
maskelyne, nevil (17231811) Delisle, Joseph Nicholas (1688-1768) Lalande, Joseph-Jeromele Francais de (1732-1807) Lexell, Anders (1740-84) Pingre, Alexandre
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JOHN NEVIL MASKELYNE & DAVID DEVANT
JOHN nevil maskelyne DAVID DEVANT. John nevil maskelyne, a notorious escapismartist, began his career a short time after Robert Houdin´s death in 1871.
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Extractions: John Nevil Maskelyne, a notorious escapism artist, began his career a short time after Robert Houdin´s death in 1871. Together with his spectacular escapism tricks, he perfected the levitation trick with apparently no outside helps. In 1893 he joined David Devant. In 1911 they published "Our Magic", a great consult book about the theory of magic. Maskelyne died in 1917, but Devant continued acting until a short time after his death in 1941 with 73 years.
JOHN NEVIL MASKELYNE & DAVID DEVANT
nevil maskelyne, um notórioartista de escapismo, começou a sua carreira pouco antes
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Extractions: John Nevil Maskelyne, um notório artista de escapismo, começou a sua carreira pouco antes da morte de Robert Houdin em 1871. Juntamente com os seus espectaculares truques de escapismo, ele aperfeiçoou o truque da levitação aparentemente sem ajudas exteriores. Em 1893 ele juntou-se com David Devant. Em 1911 eles publicaram "A nossa magia", um grande livro de consulta sobre a teoria da magia. Maskelyne morreu em 1917, mas Devant continuou a actuar até pouco antes da sua morte em 1941 com 73 anos.
John Nevil Maskelyne
Translate this page John nevil maskelyne. John nevil maskelyne nasceu em 1839, na cidade de Cheltenham,na Inglaterra. John nevil maskelyne morreu com 88 anos, em 1917.
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Extractions: John Nevil Maskelyne John Nevil Maskelyne nasceu em 1839, na cidade de Cheltenham, na Inglaterra. Assim como Robert-Houdin, Maskelyne era um promissor relojoeiro e um mágico amador nos horários de folga. Mas foi sua indignação com o charlatanismo que o tornou o fundador de uma dinastia de mágicos que estavam por vir na Inglaterra. Em 1865 Maslelyne assistiu a uma demonstração espirita dos irmãos Davenports. Na mesma hora percebeu que nada daquilo era realmente espirita, tudo não passava de truque. Convencido em desmascarar a dupla de charlatães, Maskelyne conversou com seus colegas mágicos sobre as apresentações dos irmãos Davenports, que concordaram que as demonstrações não passavam de truques. Mas como provar? Um de seus colegas, George Cooke, aceitou o desafio, e juntos foram assistir a outra apresentação. Durante a apresentação, desta vez com um olhar bem mais atento, Maskelyne pode perceber várias das técnicas empregadas pelos irmãos. Quando convencido de que já havia visto o bastante, interrompeu o show avisando a todos que aquilo era uma patifaria, não uma demonstração de espiritismo. Os Davenports, surpreendidos com a acusação, o desafiaram a produzir os mesmos efeitos, para assim provar realmente a falsidade daqueles números. Maskelyne e Cooke aceitaram o desafio, e em pouco tempo produziram uma espécie de cabine mágica, que se assemelhava muito àquela dos espiritas. O show foi um sucesso, e a notícia de que os irmãos Davenport haviam sido desmascarados correu a Inglaterra. Desse episódio nasceu a dupla de mágicos que viria a ser famosa mundialmente: Maskelyne e Cooke.
Nevil Maskelyne - L'arte Nella Magia
Translate this page 128 ISBN 88-86809-15-8 Euro 26,00. nevil maskelyne L'ARTE NELLA MAGIA TEORIAE PRATICA DELLA PRESENTAZIONE MAGICA Prefazione di Tony Binarelli.
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Extractions: Prefazione di Tony Binarelli Ecco la versione italiana della prima parte di "Our magic": un'opera fondamentale per chi ama la prestigiazione. Scritta da uno degli illusionisti inglesi più celebri e stimati, oggi è considerata un classico: L'arte nella magia illustra come trasformare un qualsiasi gioco di prestigio in un vero effetto magico e come un semplice esecutore possa essere "artista".
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
maskelyne, nevil 17321811, astronomer royal, was the third son of Edmund maskelyneof Purton in Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth Booth, and was born in London
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Extractions: [Provided by Daniel O'Hara] Maskelyne, Nevil Nautical Almanac for 1767, the rule upon which it was founded having been already communicated to the Royal Society (Phil. Trans. liv. 265). Through Bradley's influence he was sent by the Royal Society to observe the transit of Venus of 6 June 1761, in the island of St. Helena. He proposed besides to determine the parallaxes of Sirius and the moon (ib. li. 889, lii. 21), but met disappointment everywhere. The transit was concealed by clouds; a defective mode of suspension rendered his zenith-sector practically useless (ib. liv. 348). An improvement on this point, however, which he was thus led to devise, was soon after universally adopted; and during a stay in the island of ten months he kept tidal records, and determined the altered rate of one of Shelton's clocks (ib. pp. 441, 586). On the voyage out and home he experimented in taking longitudes by lunar distances, and published on his return The British Mariner's Guide
Mason & Dixon - Thomas Pynchon
nevil maskelyne. Mark Smith posted the following on the Pynchon Listkellner@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu wrote of nevil maskelyne Does
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Extractions: >of this highly interesting and complex character? As far as I can gather, Maskelyne seems to have been a dullard of epic proportions. Quoting from Dava Sobel's book Longitude , p. 112: "Maskelyne, who put off marrying until he was fifty-two, enslaved himself to accurate observation and careful calculation. He kept records of everything, from astronomical positions to events in his personal life (including each expenditure, large or small, over the course of four-score years), and noted them all with the same detached matter-of factness. He even wrote his own autobiography in the third person :'Dr. M,' [....] "he seemed never to have been young. Described by a biographer early on as 'rather a swot' and 'a bit of a prig,'.." Sobel's book also chronicles the incredible mean spiritedness of the man who was the main personification of the lunar distance method of calculating longitude, and the extent Maskelyne went to in order to prevent clockmaker John Harrison from claiming the prize.

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