Sujet
Nevil Maskelyne, fifth British Astronomer Royal, (1815).Artist: Page
Légende
Nevil Maskelyne, fifth British Astronomer Royal, (1815). Maskelyne (1732-1811) was Astronomer Royal from 1765-1811. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1758. Maskelyne proposed a means of calculating longitude based on measuring lunar distances and publishing them in a form accessible to navigators, leading to him establish the Nautical Almanack in 1766.
The Print Collector collection
Date
1815
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM19C10_348
Model release
Non
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,2Mo (2,4Mo) / 30,7cm x 41,0cm / 3624 x 4839 (300dpi)