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Nevil Maskelyne

Fifth Astronomer Royal (*1765 – †1811)

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Lived 1732–1811, aged 79
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    1732–1811
    Aged 79
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Updated 2026-06-20

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 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.

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