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Nevil Maskelyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Nevil Maskelyne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811) ... Nevil Maskelyne was an English astronomer who measured the Earth's density in a famous experiment at Schiehallion.
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Painting of Nevil Maskelyne, the British astronomy ... ({{Information |Description = Painting of Nevil Maskelyne, the British astronomy |Source = Between pages 20 and 21 of ''The Gallery of Portraits with Memoirs'', volume VI |Date = 1836 |Author = Edward Scriven, 1775-1841, printer |Permission = |other_versi...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Maskelyne, Nevil. Maskelyne, Nevil. Information about Maskelyne, Nevil in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Maskelyne was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Cambridge. He was ordained a cleric in Barnet in 1755, but began working at the Greenwich Observatory in...
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John Nevil Maskelyne : 1839 - 1917 ... John Nevil Maskelyne (1839-1917) was one of the greatest British magicians, particularly in the field of stage illusions created through sleight of hand. ... by Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant and reviewed in 1997 by Steve Bryant...
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Maskelyne was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1765 and held that office until his death. He began publication in 1766 of the Nautical Almanac. This contained astronomical tables and navigational aids, and was probably his most enduring contribution to astronomy.
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