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...

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...

Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught...

John Nevil Maskelyne, known professionally as Nevil Maskelyne (1863–1924), was a British magician and inventor. Maskelyne was born in 1863 Cheltenham (bapt...

Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811) was the fifth English Astronomer Royal. Nevil Maskelyne may also refer to: Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), British...

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...

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...

Maskelyne may refer to: Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1611–1679), English landowner, MP for Cricklade Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer...

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,...

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...

the first historic phase of Spiritualism. Stage magicians like John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Houdini made a side-line of exposing fraudulent mediums during...

Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), British magician and inventor Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823–1911), English geologist and politician Henry Nevil...

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...

Nevil Maskelyne, some of whose instruments they used. There was keen interest in their work and much communication between the surveyors, Maskelyne and...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, magicians such as John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant, Howard Thurston, Harry Kellar, and Harry Houdini...

process Metamorphosis (illusion), a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne Shapeshifting, a common theme in mythology, folklore and other fiction...

his theory of gravitation; however, a team of scientists, notably Nevil Maskelyne, the Astronomer Royal, was convinced that the effect would be detectable...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

Helena where they made a series of observations with the astronomer Nevil Maskelyne. From November 1763 to 1768, Mason and Jeremiah Dixon established the...

Metamorphosis is the name of a stage illusion invented by John Nevil Maskelyne, but most often associated with famous escape artist Harry Houdini and...

magicians. Outside the film, similar rivalries include magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and Harry Kellar's dispute over a levitation illusion. Gary Westfahl...

Mural Quadrants (1768). Both had a foreword from the astronomer-royal Nevil Maskelyne. When the Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834, the standard yards...

reports by the investigators such as Richard Hodgson and magician John Nevil Maskelyne, all the phenomena observed in the Cambridge sittings were the result...

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