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To the Right Honourable, and Honourable, the Commissioners, appointed by Act of Parliament, for providing a Publick Reward for such Person, or or Persons, that shall find the Longitude at Sea. The humble Petition of Robert Browne, Sheweth, That you Petitioner is informed, that some Persons have lately offered Methods for finding the Longitude at Sea, by Coelestial Observations; which Methods seem to be grounded on the Problems your Petitioner constructed about 20 Years ago, and have been in Print now 14 Years, as will appear, by being anexed to this Petition: Your Petitioner, therefore, humbly prays, That Recourse may be had thereunto, and that this Honourable Assembly, will please to consider the Application, Pains, Charge, Projections, and Improvements of your Petitioner, which he proposes preferable to all others, for this Purpose. That no other Person be permited to survive what
Browne, Robert, of Wapping.Date: 1729]- Books
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Tables for correcting the apparent distance of the moon and a star from the effects of refraction and parallax. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]- Books
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Description of an engine for dividing strait lines on mathematical instruments. By Mr. J. Ramsden, mathematical instrument-maker, and optician. Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Ramsden, J. (Jesse), 1735-1800.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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A description of an accurate and simple method of adjusting Hadley's quadrant for the back observation. By Mr. Robert Blair. Published by order of the Committee of Longitude.
Blair, Robert, -1828.Date: 1788]- Books
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An account of the going, during Thirteen Months. At the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, of a pocket Chronometer, Invented and Made by John Arnold, Published with Permission of the Board of Longitude.
Arnold, John, chronometer maker.Date: 1780- Books
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The longitude logarithms; in their regular and shortest order. Made easy for use in taking the latitude and longitude, at sea and land. By Samuel Dunn, Teacher of the Mathematical Sciences, London, Longitude Instructor to Gentlemen in the Sea Service, Author of several Treatises on these Subjects, &c.
Dunn, Samuel, -1794.Date: M.DCC.XCIII. [1793]- 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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The Vermont almanac, and register, for the year of our Lord 1795, being the third after leap-year, and the nineteenth of the independence of America. Fitted to the latitude and longitude of Rutland, latitude 430 21' north. Longitude 2 [degrees] 9 [minutes] east of Philadelphia.
Date: [1794]- Books
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The magnetic atlas, or variation charts of the whole terraqueous globe; Comprising a System of the variation and Dip of the Needle, by which, the observations being truly made, the Longitude may be ascertained. By John Churchman. By John Churchman.
Churchman, John, 1753-1805.Date: [1794]- Books
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The Vermont almanac and register, for the year of our Lord 1797: being the first after leap-year, and until July fourth, the twenty-first of the independence of America. Fitted to the latitude and longitude of Rutland: latitude 430 21 min. north. Longitude 2 [degrees] 9 [minutes] east of Philadelphia.
Date: [1796]- Books
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Observations and experiments made at Port Bowen in the years 1824-25, on the figure of the earth, on magnetism, and atmospherical refraction / [Sir William Edward Parry].
Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855Date: 1826- Books
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Remarks on Mr. Forster's account of Captain Cook's last voyage round the world, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. By William Wales, F.R.S. Astronomer on Board the Resolution, in that Voyage, under the Appointment of the Board of Longitude.
Wales, William, 1734?-1796.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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A sexcentenary table; exhibiting, at sight, the result of any proportion, where the terms do not exceed 600 seconds or 10 minutes; with precepts and examples. By John Bernoulli, Astronomer to his Prussian Majesty. published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Bernoulli, Jean, 1744-1807.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Methods, propositions and problems, for finding the latitude; With the Degree and Minute of the Equator upon the Meridian. And The Longitude at Sea. By Caelestial Observations only. And also by Watches, Clocks, &c. and to correct them and know their Alterations. By Robert Browne.
Browne, Robert, of Wapping.Date: [1714]- Books
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An humble address to the Right Honourable the Lords, and the rest of the Honourable commissioners, appointed by Act of Parliament to judge of all performances relating to the longitude; Wherein it is demonstrated from Mr. Flamsteed's Observations, that by the late incomparable Sir Isaac Newton's Theory of the Moon, as it is now freed from some Errors of the Press, the Longitude may be found by Land or Sea, either Night or Day, when the Moon is visible, and in proper Weather, within very few Miles of Certainty. By R. W. the author of Viaticum nautarum, Now lying before the Honourable Commissioners.
Wright, Robert, 1677-Date: 1728- 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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Brookes' general gazetteer abridged. Containing a geographical description of the countries, cities, towns, forts, seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world; with their Longitude and Latitude, Bearings and Distances from Remarkable Places, and the Events by which they have been Distinguished. Illustrated by maps.
Brookes, R. (Richard), active 1721-1763.Date: 1796- 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 prognostication for the year of our Lord, 1687 : Being the third after bissextile, or leap-year. ... exactly calculated for the meridian of the famous city of Edinburgh, whose Latitude is 56 degrees, 00 minuts. Longitude is 11 degrees, 37 minuts. According to the best tables.
Date: Printed for the year 1687- Books
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MDCLXXXIII. The Boston ephemeris : An almanack for the (Dionysian) year of the Christian era. MDCLXXXIII. and of the worlds creation 5632, anno oppidi inchoati 53, of which the vulgar notes are ... serving the meridian of Boston in New-Engl. Latitude 42 gr. 30 min. Longitude 315 gr.
Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728Date: 1683- 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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Directions for making the best composition for the metals of reflecting telescopes; and the method of casting, grinding, polishing, and giving them the true parabolic figure. By the Rev'd John Edwards, B.A.
Edwards, John, active 1781-1803.Date: [1787?]- Books
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Browne, 1628 : A new almanacke and prognostication, for the yeare of our Lord God 1628. Being bisextile, or leape yeere. Composed and properly referred to the longitude and latitude of the pole artick of that famous city of London, and may serue generally for the most part of Great-Britaine. ... at London. Longitude, 25.deg. Latitude, 51-32. By Daniel Browne willer to the mathematickes, and teacher of arithmeticke, astra regnnt homines, & regit astra Deus.
Browne, Daniel, active 1614-1631Date: [1628]- Books
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Mystical mathematics applied to moon-hauling, or, the science of non-entities, As fully set forth in the new requisite tables, Published by Order of the Board of Longitude; In Four extremely extreme Exemplifying problems: and the correspondence, on that Subject, between Nauticus and the compiler, As published in the Gazetteer.
Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Tables to improve and render more general the method of finding the latitude, by observing two altitudes of the sun, and the internal of time between. By John Brinkley, A.M. Andrew's professor of astronomy, Dublin; late Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge. Published by order of the commissioners of Longitude.
Brinkley, John, 1763-1835.Date: 1794