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Neville Maskelyne
Document Type: Photo/Image
Geographic Location: Greenwich, England
ID Number: Maskelyne
Keywords: Navigation
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Description:
Astronomer Royal Neville Maskelyne is credited for checking and publishing calculated positions of the moon in the first British Nautical Almanac, in 1767. The Lunar Distances tables were fundamental to the finding of longitude at sea without a chronometer.
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