References for Nevil Maskelyne

Books:

1. D Howse, Nevil Maskelyne: The seaman's astronomer (Cambridge, 1989).

Articles:

2. E G Forbes, The correspondence between Carl Friedrich Gauss and the Rev Nevil Maskelyne (1802-5), Annals of Science 27 (1971), 213-237.
3. A W Lane Hall, Nevil Maskelyne, J. British Asrtonomical Association 43 (1932), 67-77.
4. G S Leadstone, Maskelyne's Schehallien experiment of 1774, Physics Education 9 (1974), 452-458.

February 1997