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Nevil Maskelyne

1732 - 1811

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Nevil Maskelyne (; 6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) 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 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 Leonhard Euler's Lunar Theory tables. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nevil Maskelyne is the 208th most popular astronomer (up from 259th in 2019), the 1,766th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,169th in 2019) and the 28th most popular British Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Nevil Maskelyne ranks 208 out of 644. Before him are Antonín Mrkos, George Mary Searle, Joel Hastings Metcalf, Giovanni Battista Donati, Andrew Graham, and Lyudmila Chernykh. After him are John Bevis, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Sergey Belyavsky, Francis Baily, Erasmus Reinhold, and Bengt Strömgren.

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Among people born in 1732, Nevil Maskelyne ranks 20. Before him are Richard Arkwright, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Carl Gotthard Langhans, Peter Forsskål, Hieronymus von Colloredo, and Warren Hastings. After him are František Brixi, John Blair Jr., Joseph Gaertner, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and Joseph von Sonnenfels. Among people deceased in 1811, Nevil Maskelyne ranks 8. Before him are Peter Simon Pallas, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden, Dositej Obradović, and Jean Chalgrin. After him are Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Eliza Poe, Thomas Percy, Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, and William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Nevil Maskelyne ranks 1,766 out of 8,785. Before him are James Bruce (1730), Donald Crisp (1882), George Peacock (1791), John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (1934), Allan Clarke (1946), and Princess Augusta of Great Britain (1737). After him are Robert Chambers (1802), Patrick Geddes (1854), Alexander Mackenzie (1764), John Graunt (1620), John Latham (1740), and John Hunter (1728).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In United Kingdom

Among astronomers born in United Kingdom, Nevil Maskelyne ranks 28. Before him are Jeremiah Horrocks (1618), William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800), James Ferguson (1797), Margaret Burbidge (1919), Norman Lockyer (1836), and George Mary Searle (1839). After him are John Bevis (1695), Francis Baily (1774), Edward L. G. Bowell (1943), Robert T. A. Innes (1861), Alfred Fowler (1868), and James Ferguson (1710).

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