Nevil Maskelyne FRS FRSE (/ˈmæskəlɪn/; 6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811...
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John Nevil Maskelyne (22 December 1839 – 18 May 1917) was an English stage magician and inventor of the pay toilet, along with other Victorian-era devices...
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John Nevil Maskelyne, known professionally as Nevil Maskelyne (1863–1924), was a British magician and inventor. Maskelyne was born in 1863 Cheltenham (bapt...
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Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught...
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Nevil Maskelyne (1611 – 30 August 1679) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660. Maskelyne was the son of Edmund...
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Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. Nevil Maskelyne may also refer to: Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), British...
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established family of stage magicians, the son of Nevil Maskelyne and a grandson of John Nevil Maskelyne. He is most remembered for his accounts of his work...
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Maskelyne may refer to: Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1611–1679), English landowner, MP for Cricklade Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer...
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the aphorism in reference to stage magic. The British stage magician Nevil Maskelyne wrote in 1908: It is an experience common to all men to find that,...
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Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), British magician and inventor Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823–1911), English geologist and politician Henry Nevil...
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the first historic phase of Spiritualism. Stage magicians like John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini made a side-line of exposing fraudulent mediums during...
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magician Nevil Maskelyne. The production premiered at Saint George's Hall in London on 2 January 1905. Both Nevil Maskelyne and his father John Nevil Maskelyne...
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Tranquillitatis. Its diameter is 22 km. It was named after British astronomer Nevil Maskelyne. The outer rim has a somewhat polygonal shape, although it is generally...
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Mason succeeded in observing the transit at the Cape of Good Hope, but Nevil Maskelyne and Robert Waddington were less successful on Saint Helena, although...
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant, Howard Thurston, Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini...
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Schiehallion experiment (redirect from Maskelyne experiment)
his theory of gravitation; however, a team of scientists, notably Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, was convinced that the effect would be detectable...
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process Metamorphosis (illusion), a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore and other fiction...
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the original regulations of the University of London in 1839, and Nevil Maskelyne being recorded as taking a bachelor's degree with honours at Cambridge...
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Devant and John Nevil Maskelyne were regularly seen performing. Devant became the first president of The Magic Circle, and in 1906, Maskelyne edited the first...
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Nevil Maskelyne, some of whose instruments they used. There was keen interest in their work and much communication between the surveyors, Maskelyne and...
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made on the experiment was proposed to the Royal Society in 1772 by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal. He suggested that the experiment would "do honour...
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magicians. Outside the film, similar rivalries include magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Kellar's dispute over a levitation illusion. Gary Westfahl...
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Helena where they made a series of observations with the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne. From November 1763 to 1768, Mason and Jeremiah Dixon established the...
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the emerging field of information visualisation. Future Astronomer Nevil Maskelyne visited Saint Helena in 1761 to observe a transit of Venus and built...
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Joseph Jastrow Stanley LeFevre Krebs Rose Mackenberg David Marks John Nevil Maskelyne Henry Maudsley Joseph McCabe Henry C. McComas Georgess McHargue Charles...
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device and many others were described in detail by the magician John Nevil Maskelyne. The main purpose of any holdout device is to temporarily hold a card...
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his results had at least falsified the Hollow Earth Theory. In 1772, Nevil Maskelyne proposed to repeat the same experiment to the Royal Society. Within...
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Joseph Jastrow Stanley LeFevre Krebs Rose Mackenberg David Marks John Nevil Maskelyne Henry Maudsley Joseph McCabe Henry C. McComas Georgess McHargue Charles...
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Metamorphosis is the name of a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, but most often associated with famous escape artist Harry Houdini and...
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astronomer, Charles Green, then assistant to the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. Joseph Banks had been appointed to the voyage as the official botanist...
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