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Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington set up an observatory in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, following a suggestion first made by Halley.
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* 1765 – 1811 Nevil Maskelyne
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.
His interest in astronomy grew stronger after he made the acquaintance of the English Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
* October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal ( d. 1811 )
The Reverend Dr Nevil Maskelyne FRS ( 6 October 1732 – 20 July 1811 ) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal.
Nevil Maskelyne is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, the parish church of the village of Purton, Wiltshire, England.
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The British stage magician Nevil Maskelyne wrote in 1908:
Mason and Dixon could only do the work as accurately as they did due to the work of Nevil Maskelyne, some of whose instruments they used.
Other illusionists, including John Nevil Maskelyne, worked out how the Davenports did their act and re-created the tricks to debunk the brothers ' claims of psychic power.
* John Nevil Maskelyne, Sharps and Flats, ( London: 1894 ; reprint, Las Vegas: GBC.
* Nevil Story Maskelyne
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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.
Nevil and Robert
Since this measure of destruction was no longer imaginary, some of these new works, such as Mordecai Roshwald's Level 7, Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Pat Frank's Alas, Babylon, and Robert McCammon's Swan Song shun the imaginary science and technology that are the identifying traits of general science fiction.
In 2010 another new exhibition called “ Pioneers of Aviation ”, and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, is to be opened featuring the lives and achievements of Sir George Cayley, Sir Barnes Wallis, Robert Blackburn, Nevil Shute and Amy Johnson.
Nevil and set
* Publication of Nevil Shute's novel No Highway set in the world of research into air safety.
Nevil and up
Baldock is one of the waypoints on Warren's long drive up the Great North Road, which brings about the occasion for the novel's plot, the rescue of the shipbuilding town of ' Sharples ' ( Blyth ), in " Ruined City ," by Nevil Shute.
A genre of such topical fiction sprang up in the late 1950s – led by Nevil Shute's On the Beach – of which Red Alert was among the earliest examples.
Nevil and following
In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London and reported on Nevil Maskelyne's determination of the mean density and mass of the earth from measurements taken in 1774 – 1776 at Schiehallion in Perthshire.
Nevil and first
* An escaped convict from Dartmoor figures in Nevil Shute's first novel Marazan, published in 1926.
* The Nevil Shute Book Page – General Nevil Shute biographical information and extensive first edition collection tips
Through Nevil Maskelyne, whose acquaintance he had first made in the course of the celebrated Schiehallion experiments in 1774, he also gained access to the scientific circles of London.
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.
* Kuantan features prominently in the first part of Nevil Shute's 1949 novel A Town Like Alice
The term " inert pair " was first proposed by Nevil Sidgwick in 1927.
The idea of a correlation between molecular geometry and number of valence electrons ( both shared and unshared ) was first presented in a Bakerian Lecture in 1940 by Nevil Sidgwick and Herbert Powell at the University of Oxford.
Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942.
The film is based on the novel No Highway by Nevil Shute, and was one of the first films that involved a potential aircraft crash.
Three years after the film and six years after Nevil Shute's original novel ( No Highway ) there were two fatal crashes of the world's first jet passenger airliner, the de Havilland Comet.
Nevil and made
A fictional doomsday bomb, made popular by Nevil Shute's 1957 novel, and subsequent 1959 movie, On the Beach, the cobalt bomb was a hydrogen bomb with a jacket of cobalt metal.
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.
Nevil Vincent Sidgwick FRS ( 8 May 1873, Oxford – 15 March 1952, Oxford ) was an English theoretical chemist who made significant contributions to the theory of valency and chemical bonding.
Despite the order, no work was carried out, nor was it when Francis Nevil, a tax collector for the government, made a similar survey and proposal in 1703.
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