Nevil Maskelyne
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Nevil Maskelyne was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the mass of the planet Earth. He created The Nautical Al
Portrait by Louis François Gerard van der Puyl, 1785
1804 portrait of Maskelyne
Maskelyne's tomb in Purton, Wiltshire
Tables requisite to be used with the astronomical and nautical ephemeris for finding the latitude and longitude at sea, 1781
Mason & Dixon
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Mason & Dixon is a postmodernist novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon, published in 1997. It presents a fictionalized account of the collaboration between Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in th
Nevil Maskelyne
…His Time, as well as the television serial based on the book, where he is portrayed by Samuel West. Maskelyne is a supporting character in the novel Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon. He and Charles Mason (and briefly, Jeremiah Dixon before he returns to Cape Town) meet on Saint Helena - with the characters of the…
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