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Nevil Maskelyne

1732 - 1811

Nevil Maskelyne(6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was an English astronomer and mathematician.
Derek Howse, ‘Maskelyne, Nevil (1732–1811)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18266, accessed 2 March 2015]

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