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Categories: Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, 18th-century British astronomers, People educated at Westminster School, London, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, 1732 births
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Nevil Maskelyne  Nevill Maskekyne  Neville Maskelyne
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Nevil Maskelyne was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. Wikipedia
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Nevil Maskelyne was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. Wikipedia
Fifth Astronomer Royal, 1765 – 1811 Wikidata
IS A
homo
ARCHIVES AT
National Library of Wales
AWARD RECEIVED
Copley Medal
Fellow of the Royal Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EDUCATED AT
Cambridge University
Westminster School
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
EMPLOYER
Royal Observatory
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
English
MEMBER OF
Royal Society
Accademia nazionale delle scienze
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Russian Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
PLACE OF BIRTH
London
PLACE OF DEATH
Greenwich
RELIGION
Anglicanism
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Margaret Clive
STUDENT
Herschel
John Brinkley
STUDENT OF
James Bradley
WRITING LANGUAGE
English
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Nevil Maskelyne
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Nevill Maskekyne, Neville Maskelyne

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