Historedia
Person

Tobias Mayer

Events
1
Episodes
3
Years
1767

Every event in Historedia whose sources name Tobias Mayer, with the role they cite and all of that event’s episodes. This is not a biography, and mentions are grouped by name, so two people with the same name can share this page.

Events and episodes

  1. Publication of the First Nautical Almanac

    1767

    Role: Source of lunar theory corrections used in the almanac's tables

    1. 1767 · Royal Observatory, GreenwichPublication of the first annual volume

      The first issue of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for 1767, was published from the Royal Greenwich Observatory under Maskelyne's oversight.

    2. 1767 · Royal Observatory, GreenwichLunar distance tables for finding longitude at sea

      The inaugural 1767 issue's distinctive feature was tabulated lunar distances, the first nautical almanac data dedicated to convenient longitude determination at sea.

    3. 1767 · Royal Observatory, GreenwichGreenwich meridian as longitude reference

      Because almanac observations were made at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the Greenwich meridian became the longitude reference for the Royal Navy and Admiralty charts.

Sources

  1. Nevil Maskelyne Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-29