. On this day in 1732 – October 6th – English astronomer Nevil Maskelyne was born in London.
He was the fifth Astronomer Royal of England, holding the post for 46 years. Maskelyne founded the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, the first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea.
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