Sujet
Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804. Artist: Unknown
Légende
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.
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1804
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images
Notre référence
HRM19B65_307
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,7Mo) / 29,9cm x 41,9cm / 3527 x 4951 (300dpi)