For other people named Nevil Maskelyne, see Nevil Maskelyne (disambiguation).
Nevil Maskelyne
FRS FRSE
Born
6 October 1732 (1732-10-06)
London, England
Died
9 February 1811 (1811-02-10) (aged 78)
Greenwich, Kent, England
Title
Astronomer Royal
Awards
Royal Society Copley Medal (1775)
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Institutions
Fellow of the Royal Society (1758)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1784)
Honorary Member of the French Institute
Nevil MaskelyneFRS FRSE (/ˈmæskəlɪn/;[1] 6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.[a] He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the mass of the planet Earth.[2] He created The Nautical Almanac, in full the British Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Meridian of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich using Tobias Mayer's corrections for Euler's Lunar Theory tables.
^Higgitt, Rebekah. "Hero or villain? Nevil Maskelyne's posthumous reputation". YouTube. The Royal Society. Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
^Dr. Maskelyne F.R.S. Astronomer Royal, J. Asperne, London, 1804
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