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De methodo longitudinum ex observato lunae transitu per meridianum : ad celeberrimum virum D. Nevil Maskelyne... epistola
Toaldo, Giuseppe (1719-1798); Maskelyne, Nevil (1732-1811)
1784
A proposal for discovering our longitude
Squire, Jane (1671?-1743)
1742
The proposal was originally put forth in 1731 to the Parliamentary commission appointed to evaluate proposals to determine longitude. Included in this edition are the letters written over the ensuing ...
Mauritius expedition, 1874
Crawford, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of (1847-1913)
1885
Preface signed: Crawford.
The calculation of solar eclipses without parallaxes : With a specimen of the same in the total eclipse of the sun, May 11. 1724. Now first made publick. To which is added, a proposal how, with the latitude given, the geographical longitude of all the parts of the earth may be settled by the bare knowledge of the duration of solar eclipses, and especially of total darkness. With an account of some late observations made with dipping needles, in order to discover the longitude and latitude at sea
Whiston, William (1667-1752)
1724
With a half-title; errata on p.[95] (N4 recto).