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Mason & Basebe

  • GB 275 003562
  • Corporate body
  • fl 1902-1906

Photographic studio, Cambridge.

Mason

  • GB 275 003565
  • Corporate body
  • fl 1901

Photographic studio, Cambridge.

Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811) astronomer and mathematician

  • GB 275 002192
  • Person
  • 1732-1811

Graduated as seventh wrangler at Trinity College, Cambridge 1754, M.A. 1757. Fellow 1757; sent by Royal Society to observe transit of Venus at St Helena, 1761, was unsuccessful but made other useful observations; astronomer royal 1765; established the Nautical Almanac, 1766; made about 90,000 observations, published, 1776-1811; perfected method of transit-observation, 1772; invented prismatic micrometer; Copley medallist for Observations on the Attractions of Mountains (1775); member of French Institute, 1802; FRS, 1758.

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