The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 99
ents of his long reiga at Greenwich werethe transit of Venus in 1769, which he himselfobserved, and for which he issued instructions in theNautical Almanac; and his expedition in 1774 toScotland, where he measured the deviation of theplumb-line from the vertical caused by the attractionof the… … JOHN POND. (From an old engraving.) HALLEY AND HIS SUCCESSORS 97 married Mr. Anthony Mervin Story, to whom shebrought the family estates in Wiltshire, inherited byMaskelyne on the deaths of his elder brothers, and,in consequence, Mr. Story added the name ofMaskelyne to his own. Maskelynes character…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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