Search Results for "Nevil Maskelyne"

A song of Schiehallion

history of science
Virginia Mills
16 August 2022
6 mins

Virginia Mills discovers how Royal Society Fellows Nevil Maskelyne and Charles Hutton calculated the density of the Earth using a Scottish mountain, at the cost of a bothy and a prized fiddle.

Watch the skies!

history of science
Rupert Baker
15 February 2013
2 mins

Rupert Baker hunts for meteors, comets and asteroids in the archives of the Royal Society.