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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 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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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That year, Love appeared in an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes with Robbie Nevil in a segment titled " C ' est la Vie ", in which she is dressed in vintage clothes and discussed " bag ladies ".
On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia.
The town's formal charter for a weekly market and yearly fair date from a royal grant to Hugh Nevil in 1205, in which the founder's name is given as his father – in – law Stephen de Camera.
* December 10-Playwright Henry Nevil Payne is tortured for his role in the " Montgomery Plot " to restore James II to the throne — the last time a political prisoner is subjected to torture in Britain.
The hero of Nevil Shute's 1948 novel No Highway is an eccentric " boffin " at Farnborough who predicts metal fatigue in Britain's new airliner, the Rutland Reindeer.
A Town Like Alice ( U. S. title: The Legacy ) is a novel by the British-Australian author Nevil Shute.
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.
No Highway is a 1948 novel by Nevil Shute.
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.
It is the second book in the Revelation Space series ( the third including Chasm City, a standalone story ), and it continues the story of Nevil Clavain begun in the short stories " Great Wall of Mars " and " Glacial ".
Ten years later, Nevil Clavain is facing problems in the Conjoiner mother nest ; he is struggling to find answers as to what happened to Galiana ( he is unaware that she is still alive ) and about Felka, who he believes may be his daughter.
Bishopston is home to Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, located off Nevil Road.
The experience of Australian PoWs in the Pacific War is recounted by Nevil Shute in A Town Like Alice and in the autobiography of Sir Edward Dunlop.
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.
Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer is the partial autobiography of the British novelist Nevil Shute.
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.
SMALL, Small Machine Algol Like Language, is a programming language developed by Dr. Nevil Brownlee of Auckland University.
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.
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