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* Maskelyne features prominently in Dava Sobel's 1995 book, Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, as well as the television serial based on the book, where he is portayed by Samuel West.
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Maskelyne and features
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Maskelyne.
Maskelyne and Longitude
Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.
The position automatically made him an ex-officio member of the Board of Longitude and it was not long before a negative report was made on Harrison's chronometer, Maskelyne refusing to allow for the known rate at which Harrison's chronometer gained or lost time and thus dismissing it as inaccurate.
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Maskelyne and Story
* Nevil Story Maskelyne
* Wollaston Medal for Geology: Nevil Story Maskelyne
Smyth married Anna Maria Antonia Maskelyne, daughter of Anthony Mervin Story Maskelyne, of Basset Down House, Wiltshire on 9 April 1864.
Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne ( 3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911 ) was an English geologist and politician.
Nevil was the eldest son of Antony Mervin Reeve Story and Margaret Maskelyne, the daughter of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne.
* Vanda Morton: Oxford rebels: the life and friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne 1823-1911: pioneer Oxford scientist, photographer and politician, 1987 ISBN 0-86299-456-X
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Maskelyne and Scientific
There was keen interest in their work and much communication between the surveyors, Maskelyne and other members of the British Scientific establishment in the Royal Society in England, notably Henry Cavendish.
Maskelyne and well
He left Madras for home, after ten years ' absence, early in 1753, but not before marrying Margaret Maskelyne, the sister of his friend Nevil Maskelyne who was afterwards well known as Astronomer Royal.
Maskelyne and on
Also, since the lunar distance method relied on tables that only Maskelyne was capable of calculating, the method was not yet in a position to take the prize.
In 1772 Maskelyne proposed to the Royal Society what was to become known as the Schiehallion experiment ( named after the mountain on which it was performed ), for the determination of the Earth ’ s density using a plumb line.
Maskelyne performed his experiment in 1774 on Schiehallion in Perthshire, Scotland, the mountain being chosen due to its regular conical shape which permitted a reasonably accurate determination of its volume.
* Captain Cook names the Maskelyne Islands in southern Malekule, Vanuatu after him on his voyage in Resolution.
Maskelyne proposed measuring the gravitational force deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason ( who had returned to England ) on a site survey through central England and Scotland to find a suitable location during the summer of 1773.
Robert Clive married Margaret Maskelyne ( d. 28 December 1817 ) on 18 February 1753, sister of the Rev.
MI9 used the advice of master stage-magician Jasper Maskelyne to design hiding places for escape aids: tools disguised in a cricket bat, a saw blade inside a comb, maps in the backs of books and on playing cards and inside gramophone records, board-game sets that concealed money.
In the Tudor period the Maskelyne family were significant landlords and landowners in Purton, having inherited rights granted by the last Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey to the Pulley or Pulleyne family, from whom they descended on the distaff side.
The family adopted the name of Maskelyne on Nevil's coming of age as they had inherited that family's estate at Basset Down in Wiltshire.
He was asked to report upon stones adapted for use in powder-mills, upon the suitability of the chief Scottish mountains for a repetition of the pendulum experiments previously conducted by Nevil Maskelyne and John Playfair at Schiehallion, and on the deviations of the plumb-line along the meridian of the Trigonometrical Survey.
Following this, Maskelyne encouraged Arnold by employing him on several occasions, mostly in connection with watch and clock jewelling.
Maskelyne and where
The first official meeting was at the Green Man public house in Soho, but meetings were later in a room at St George's Hall in Langham Place, where David Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne were regularly seen performing.
Maskelyne and is
Nevil Maskelyne is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, the parish church of the village of Purton, Wiltshire, England.
From Maskelyne ’ s observations Charles Hutton deduced a density for the earth 4. 5 times that of water ( the modern value is 5. 515 ).
* Maskelyne is a supporting character in Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon.
* Maskelyne is portrayed as " Dr. Vickery " in Kate Grenville's semi-historical novel The Lieutenant.
* The lunar crater Maskelyne is named for him.
Speaking of Misdirection, Nevil Maskelyne wrote, " It consists admittedly in misleading the spectator's senses, in order to screen from detection certain details for which secrecy is required.
Wallach is located to the northeast of the crater Maskelyne, near some low ridges in the lunar mare.
To the northeast is the crater Maskelyne.
Maskelyne is a solitary lunar crater that lies in the southeast part of the Mare Tranquillitatis.
Nevil Maskelyne was born in London, lived at Down Farm and is buried in Purton churchyard.
Metamorphosis is the name of a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, but most often associated with famous escape artist Harry Houdini and performed to some renown ( for speed ) by The Pendragons, among others.
Maskelyne and by
The term lunatic was also used by supporters of John Harrison and his marine chronometer method of determining longitude to refer to proponents of the Method of Lunar Distances, advanced by Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.
German reconnaissance aircraft photographed the site and the faked damage by Jasper Maskelyne convinced Chapman's controllers that the attack had been successful.
This proposal, the germ of the Nautical Almanac, was approved by the government, and under the care of Maskelyne the Nautical Almanac for 1767 was published in 1766.
Even after a successful trial in Barbados in 1764 observed by Maskelyne, Harrison was required to produce detailed drawings and build two more chronometers, one of which was eventually tested by King George III himself.
Maskelyne took a great interest in various geodetical operations, notably the measurement of the length of a degree of latitude in Maryland and Pennsylvania, executed by Mason and Dixon in 1766 – 1768, and later the determination of the relative longitude of Greenwich and Paris.
Maskelyne also introduced several practical improvements, such as the measurement of time to tenths of a second ; and prevailed upon the government to replace Bird ’ s mural quadrant by a repeating circle 6 feet ( 1. 8 m ) in diameter.
The new instrument was constructed by Edward Troughton but Maskelyne did not live to see it completed.
Mason selected Schiehallion at which to conduct what became known as the Schiehallion experiment which was carried out primarily by Maskelyne and determined the density of the Scottish mountain.
Maskelyne exposed the Davenport Brothers by appearing in the audience during their shows and explaining how the trick was done.
Shortly afterwards he undertook the further laborious task of reducing the enormous mass of observations of the moon made at Greenwich during the same period under the direction, successively, of James Bradley, Nathaniel Bliss, Nevil Maskelyne and John Pond, to defray the expense of which a large sum of money was allotted by the Treasury.
A recent study by Richard Stokes attested that much of the story concerning the involvement of Jasper Maskelyne in counterintelligence operations, as described in the books " White Magic " and " Magic: Top Secret ", was pure invention, and that no such unit christened " Magic Gang " ever existed.
One of his most memorable stage illusions was the levitation of a girl advertised as the " Levitation of Princess Karnack " ( similar to an illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne ).
Kellar supposedly developed this trick by abruptly walking onto the stage during a show by Maskelyne, seeing what he needed to know, and leaving.
This crater was previously identified as Maskelyne E before being named by the IAU.
It was previously identified as Maskelyne H before being given a name by the IAU.
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