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Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811Date: 1765-1804Reference: MS.7305- Archives and manuscripts
Nevil Maskelyne (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal
Date: 1776Reference: MS.7830/42-43Part of: Miscellany: Australasia, Indonesia and the Pacific, 18th-20th centuries- Archives and manuscripts
Engraving of Maskelyne
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7305/17Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Receipts signed by Maskelyne
Date: 1772-1797Reference: MS.7305/12-13Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Printed cutting outlining Maskelyne's career
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7305/18Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Autograph letters, signed, and third-person notes by Maskelyne
Date: 1767-1804Reference: MS.7305/1-11Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Printed outline of Maskelyne's career, removed from a longer text
Date: 18th centuryReference: MS.7305/16Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Warrant to the principal officers of His Majesty's Ordnance announcing Maskelyne's appointment as Astronomer-Royal and setting out details of payments to him
Date: 1765Reference: MS.7305/14Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Archives and manuscripts
Letter relating to book order
Date: 1794Reference: MS.7305/15Part of: Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811), Astronomer-Royal- Pictures
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Nevil Maskelyne. Stipple engraving, 1804.
Date: 1804Reference: 6361i- Pictures
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Nevil Maskelyne. Coloured stipple engraving by R. Page, 1815.
Date: 1815Reference: 6362i- Pictures
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Nevil Maskelyne. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven after L.F.G. van der Puyl.
Puyl, Louis François Gerard van der, 1750-1824.Reference: 6360i- Books
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A plan for observing the meteors called fire-balls, by Nevil Maskelyne, D.D. F.R.S. and Astronomer Royal.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: 1783]- Books
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Account of a new instrument for measuring small angles, called the prismatic micrometer. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. And Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society, December 18, 1777.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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An account of observations made on the mountain Schehallien for finding its attraction. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B.D.F.R.S. and Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society, July 6, 1775.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Instructions relative to the observation of the ensuing transit of the planet Venus over the sun's disk, on the 3d of June 1769. By the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. F. R. S. Astronomer Royal.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: M.DCC.LXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Observations of the transit of Venus over the sun, and the eclipse of the sun, on June III, MDCCLXIX. made at the Royal Observatory. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A proposal for measuring the attraction of some hill in this kingdom by astronomical observations. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, B. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society, in the year 1772.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the year MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Advertisement of the expected return of the comet of 1532 and 1661 in the year 1788. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. And Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society, June 29, 1786.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Astronomical observations made at the island of St. Helena, By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity-College, in the University of Cambridge, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Dcc. [sic] 20, 1764, and Jan. 24, 1765.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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Some remarks upon the equation of time, and the true Manner of Computing it. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity-College, in the University of Cambridge, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society Dec. 13, 1764.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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A discourse on the attraction of mountains, delivered at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society, November 30, 1775. By Sir John Pringle, Baronet, President. Published by their order.
Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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Tables for computing the apparent places of the fixt stars, and reducing observations of the planets. By the Reverend Nevil Maskelyne, B.D. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of the Royal Society, and astronomer royal. Published by the president and council of the Royal Society, at the public expence.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: M.DCC.LXXIV. [1774]- Books
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Remarks on the Hadley's quadrant, tending principally to remove the difficulties which have hitherto attended the use of the back-observation, and to obviate the errors that might arise from a want of parallelism in the two surfaces of the index-glass. By Nevil Maskelyne, F.R.S. Astronomer Royal.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Astronomical observations made at the island of Barbados; at Willoughby Fort; and at the Observatory on Constitution Hill, both adjoining to Bridge Town. By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne, A. M. Fellow of Trinity-College, in the University of Cambridge, F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, Dcc. [sic] 20, 1764.
Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXV. [1765]