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Nevil Maskelyne

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk > Maskelyne 1758 Notebook https://wikipedia.org > Nevil_Maskelyne Dr Rebekah Higgitt: Hero or villain? Nevil Maskelyne’s posthumous reputation

Nevil Maskelyne, Future Astronomer Royal who served as curate in Chipping Barnet. While here he advanced the lunar-distance method of finding longitude, later standardised in the Nautical Almanac. [Did he live in Wood St? Nevil Maskelyne lodged in Richard Hassell’s house (source)].

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