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The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer. Artist: Unknown
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The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer. 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.
The Print Collector collection
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C19_348
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,0Mo (2,8Mo) / 31,3cm x 40,1cm / 3691 x 4731 (300dpi)