58 results filtered with: Longitude - Early works to 1800
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Some particulars relative to the discovery of the longitude; mentioning several foreign premiums, and exactly narrating the particulars of the British acts of Parliament, respecting that affair. With a list of the present commissioners, &c.
Date: [1765]- Books
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Methodus inveniendi longitudinem meridianorum tám in mari, quàm in terrâ ex astronomicis. Authore Joh. Petr. Biestero, M.D.
Biester, Johann Peter.Date: 1726- Books
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Proposal of a method for measuring degrees of longitude upon parallels of the æquator. By J. Michell, B. D. F. R. S.
Michell, John, 1724?-1793.Date: Printed in the Year 1767- Books
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A proposal to determine our longitude.
Squire, Jane, 1671?-1743.Date: 1731?]- Books
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Remarks on a pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, under the authority of the Board of Longitude. By John Harrison.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A narrative of the proceedings relative to the discovery of the longitude at sea; by Mr. John Harrison's time-keeper; subsequent to those published in the year 1763.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Perpetual universal longitude discovered on monday the 30th of april of the last year bissextile 1764.
Malassis de Sulamar, John-Baptist.Date: 1765]- Books
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Improvements in the methods now in use for taking the longitude of a ship at sea. Invented and described By Samuel Dunn, teacher of the Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M.D.CCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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A supplement to the royal astronomer and navigator. Supplying (by reduction and equation) accurate astronomical tables; tabuld̆unelmenses, greenovicenses, &c. With a general and accurate solution of the longitude problem, or the effect of parallax and refraction, in distance, truly determined. Compared with the solutions of the same problem, in the nautical almanac and ephemeris, for finding the longitude at sea. By R. Heath, author of the Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Certain new hypotheses, or fundamental principles, for the perspicuous illustration, and additional improvement (if not compleat perfection) of the present system of geometry, and particularly of hydrometry and navigation, Which are plainly Demonstrable to be True, and not Difficult, both in Theory and Practice, upon the Globe of the Universe, and upon the Navigators Compass, &c. And by means whereof the distance and longitude at sea, as well as at land, are discover'd and determin'd, with more Exactness than the Latitude is now known and ascertain'd. And the Latitude is also Corrected; the Variation of the Magnetical Needle accounted for; and the whole Terraqueous Globe more Naturally, Intelligibly, and Accurately Projected and Delineated. By Henry Kindon, of London, Gent.
Kindon, Henry, -1717.Date: 1717- Books
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To the Most Honourable the House of Commons the declaration of John-Baptist Malassis de Sulamar whose title of Arch-teacher is proved by that of discoverer of the quadrature of the circle and that of discoverer of Longitude itself, in eagle stret red-lion square facing the eagle, this tuesday march 19, 1665.....
Malassis de Sulamar, John-Baptist.Date: 1765]- Books
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The astronomy of fixed stars; concisely deduced from original principles, and prepared for application to geography and navigation. Part I. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M.DCC.XCII. [1792]- Books
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Some reflections on the uncertainty of many astronomical and geographical positions, with regard to the figure and magnitude of the earth, the finding the longitude at sea by watches, and other assertions of the most eminent astronomers. With some Hints towards their Reformation and Emendation. By Edmund Stone.
Stone, Edmund, -1768.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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The practical observer; Or, The new method of finding the latitude at sea, by taking two altitudes, either in the forenoon or afternoon. And also, the new method of finding the longitude at sea, by taking the distance of the moon from the sun, or a fixed Star, &c. Rendered easy to the meanest capacity. By J. Hamilton Moore, author of the practical navigator, and seaman's new daily assistant. To which is added, the new Solar tables. and table of natural sines, with the use of the quadrant and sextant.
Moore, John Hamilton, -1807.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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A description concerning such mechanism as will afford a nice, or True mensuration of time; Together with some account of the attempts for the discovery of the longitude by the moon: as also an account of the discovery of the scale of musick. By John Harrison, inventer of the time-keeper for the longitude at sea.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.Date: M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]- Books
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An introduction to a true method for the discovery of longitude at sea. Humbly offer'd to the consideration of both Houses of Parliament. By Stephen Plank.
Plank, Stephen.Date: 1720- Books
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The longitude demonstrated, by the use of a silent pendulum; that keeps true time at sea. And made plain (by an Index Instrument) to the meanest Capacity. With a new observatory for finding the meridian altitude of sun or stars, and a great Improvement of the Sun-Quadrant; which are more exact than any heretofore known: With fair Copper Cuts of the Machine, and all the other Instruments. And a table of the acceleration of fixed stars, more exact than any heretofore extant; with the Sun's Declination, Right Ascension, and Equation of Time; and other useful Tables fitted to this Work. An Experiment of what Proportion a Pendulum lengthens in the greatest Heat, where Animals can live, or Vegetables grow; and at several other Degrees of Heat, to red-hot. With a Method to make a Pendulum to fit all Climates; with several other uncommon Experiments. By Jonah Crathorne.
Crathorne, Jonah.Date: 1718- Books
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Longitude to be found out with a new invented instrument, both by sea and land. Also, Some Reasons for finding it thereby, extracted from the Three Years Observations made at Islington by Dr. Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford, for knowing the true Place of the Moon, and which now are inserted in Mr. Street's Caroline Tables. With A better Method for discovering Longitude, than that lately propos'd by Mr. Whiston and Mr. Ditton. Written by R. B. secretary to the Honourable Sir Francis Wheeler, when Admiral and General in an Expedition to Martineco.
R. B., Secretary to Sir Francis Wheeler.Date: 1714- Books
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A proposal of a new method for finding the longitude at sea, or land. Together with the description and figure of a new instrument invented for the performance of it. By William Jones, M.D.
Jones, William, M.D.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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The seaman's companion : being a plain guide to the understanding of arithmetick, geometry, trigonometry, navigation, and astronomy. Applied chiefly to navigation: and furnished with a table of meridional parts, to every third minute: with excellent and easie ways of keeping a reckoning at sea, never in print before. Also, a catalogue of the longitude and latitude of the principal places in the world with other useful things. The third edition corrected and amended. By Matthew Norwood, mariner.
Norwood, MatthewDate: [1678]- Books
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The navigator's guide, to The Oriental or Indian Seas: or, the description and use of a variation chart of the magnetic needle, designed for shewing the longitude, throughout the principal parts of the Atlantic, Ethiopic, and Southern Oceans; Within a degree, or sixty miles. With an Introductory Discourse, concerning the Discovery of the Magnetic Variation, the finding of the Longitude thereby, and several useful Tables. By S. Dunn, Teacher of Mathematics, London.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: [1775]- Books
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A new discovery for finding the longitude. Humbly submitted to the approbation of the right honourable the lords spiritual and temporal, and the rest of the honourable persons, appointed by the late act of Parliament, for hearing and determining proposals relating to the said longitude. By William Hobbs.
Hobbs, William, 1658-Date: July 12. 1714- Books
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The method of finding the longitude at sea, by time-keepers: to which are added, tables of equations to equal altitudes. More Extensive and Accurate than any hitherto Published. By William Wales, F. R. S. And Master of the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital.
Wales, William 1734?-1796.Date: [1800]- Books
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A new discovery for finding the longitude. Humbly submitted to the approbation of the Right Honourable the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Rest of the Honourable Persons, appointed by the late Act of Parliament, for Hearing and Determining Proposals relating to the said Longitude. By William Hobbs, Philo Mathem.
Hobbs, William, 1658-Date: [1716]- Books
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Navigation compleated: Being a new method never before attain'd to by any. Whereby the true longitude of any place in the world may be found, whether differing in longitude only, or both in longitude and latitude from any place in the habitable world, by new invented mathematical instruments, viz. The complete navigator, or universal chart. The accute astronomer, compass, admitting of no variation in any latitude, &c. distance-reel and discoverer. By the uses whereof, the certainty of the easting and westing of the globe may be discovered as exactly as the northing and southing already are, and to give at any altitude (having the suns declination, the true latitude, longitude, hour and azimuth all at once by ocular inspection, thereby making the sea barring winds, &c. as direct and plain a path for ships to sail, as the land for travelling. By Francis Cawood, London, student in the mathematicks.
Cawood, Francis.Date: MDCCX. [1710]