Nevil Maskelyne, the seaman's astronomer
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Nevil Maskelyne, the seaman's astronomer
Cambridge University Press, 1989
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Nevil Maskelyne
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Spine title: Nevil Maskelyne
Bibliography: p. [260]-267
Includes index
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内容説明
Nevil Maskelyne directed the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, for 46 years (1765-1811) and supervised the production of the first 49 issues of the Nautical Almanac. This biography attempts to present the work and achievements of the fifth Astronomer Royal.
目次
- Part 1 Preparation: the Maskelynes of Purton
- the longitude problem
- the transit of Venus, 1761
- Saint Helena, 1761
- the Barbados trials, 1763-4
- Astronomer Royal, 1765
- the Royal Observatory and its instruments
- the Harrison affair, 1764-7
- the Nautical Almanac. Part 2 Achievement: early years at Greenwich, 1765-9
- the 1770s
- weighing the world - Schiehallion, 1774
- the 1780s - and a new planet
- the 1790s
- the final years, 1800-11. summing up.
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