Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732-1811
Maskelyne, Nevil
Maskelyne, John Nevil 1732-1811
Nevil Maskelyne
מסקלין, נוויל, 1732-1811
Maskelyne, John Nevil (Nevil), 1732-1811
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- 500 1 _ ‡a Bradley, James ‡d 1693-1762 ‡4 bezb ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#professionalRelationship ‡e Beziehung beruflich
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- 500 1 _ ‡a Story Maskelyne, Nevil ‡d 1823-1911 ‡4 bezf ‡4 https://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd#familialRelationship ‡e Beziehung familiaer
Works
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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 | |
An account of observations made on the mountain Schehallien : for finding its attraction | |
Advertisement of the expected return of the comet of 1532 and 1661 in the year 1788 By the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne ... Read at the Royal Society, June 29, 1786 | |
An answer to a pamphlet entitled "A narrative of facts," lately published by Mr. Thomas Mudge, junior, relating to some time-keepers constructed by his father Mr. Thomas Mudge; Wherein is Given An Account of the Trial of his First Time-Keeper, and of the Three Trials of his Two Other Time-Keepers, Between the Years 1774 and 1790, By Order of the Board of Longitude, At the Royal Observatory: And also the Conduct of the Astronomer Royal, and the Resolutions of the Board of Longitude, respecting them, Are Vindicated from Mr. Mudge's Misrepresentations. By Nevil Maskelyne, D. D. F. R. S. and Astronomer Royal | |
Astronomical observations made at the island of Barbados : at Willoughby Fort; and at the Observatory on Constitution Hill, Both adjoining to Bridge Town | |
The British mariner's guide, 1763: | |
The British mariner's guide. Containing, complete and easy instructions for the discovery of the longitude at sea and land, within a degree, by observations of the distance of the moon from the sun and stars, taken with Hadley's quadrant. To which are added, and appendix, containing a variety of interesting rules and directions, tending to the improvement of practical navigation in general. And a sett of correct astronomical tables. | |
Concerning the latitude and longitude of the Royal observatory at Greenwich, with Remarks on a Memorial of the late M. Cassini de Thury, by the Rev. Nevil Maskelyne..., read at the Royal Society, Feb. 22, 1787. | |
Description d'une machine pour diviser les instruments de mathématiques, par M. Ramsden, de la Société Royale de Londres; publiée à Londres, en 1787, par ordre du Bureau des longitudes; traduite de l'anglois; augmentée de la description d'une machine à diviser les lignes droites, et de la notice de divers ouvrages de M. Ramsden, par M. de La Lande, de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, de la Sociéte Royale de Londres, etc. Pour faire suite à la Description des moyens employés pour mesurer la base de Hounslow-Heath. | |
Description of a method of measuring differences of right ascension and declination, with Dolllond's micrometer, together with other new applications of the same | |
Instructions relative to the observation of the ensuing transit of the planet Venus over the sun's disk, on the 3d of June 1769 | |
Kiragurth : Manegaum | |
M. de Luc's rule for measuring heights by the barometer, : reduced To the English Measure of Length, and Adapted to Fahrenheit's Thermometer, and other Scales of Heat, and reduced to a more convenient Expression. By the Astronomer Royal. Read at the Royal Society January 13, 1774 | |
Magnetical and meteorological observations made at the Royal observatory, Greenwich | |
Mathematical tables : containing common, hyperbolic, and logistic logarithms, also sines, tangents, secants, and versed-sines, both natural and logarithmic. Together with several other tables useful in mathematical calculations, to which is prefixed, a large and original history of the discoveries and writings relating to those subjects. With the compleat description and use of the tables. By Charles Hutton. | |
New British Celestial Globe countaining the positions of nearly 6000 stars, clusters, nebulae, planetary nebulae, ets. correctly computed and laid down for the year 1800 from the latest observations and discoveries | |
On some combinaison of Gadolinite | |
The original observations of the going of the watch from day to day | |
Principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper... [with notes by Nevil Maskelyne] = Principes de la montre de Mr. Harrison [avec notes de Nevil Maskelyne]... Avertissement de l'éditeur. Résultat des observations de Mr. Maskelyne sur la montre de Mr. Harrison | |
A proposal for measuring the attraction of some hill in this Kingdom by astronomical observations | |
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 | |
Results in right ascension of the observations of stars made and reduced by Dr. Maskelyne, from 1765 to 1772, from 1779 to 1785, from 1796 to 1801, and from 1803 to 1807; with the errors of the assumed equinoxes | |
Some remarks upon the equation of time : and the true Manner of Computing it | |
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. | |
Tables for readily computing the longitude, by the lunar observations, 1791: | |
Tables of logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 101000; and of the sines and tangents to every second of the quadrant. | |
Tables requisite to be used with The nautical ephemeris for finding the latitude and longitude at sea. Published by order of the Commissioners of longitude. | |
Tabulæ motuum solis et lunæ, novæ et correctæ; | |
The theory of Jupiter's satellites : with the construction and use of the tables for computing their eclipses | |
Truth and testimony |