A new and easy method of finding the Longitude at Sea, with like accuracy that the Latitude is found
Author : T. KEAN
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File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1774
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Author : T. KEAN
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Page : pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1774
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Author : T. Kean
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Longitude
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Author : T. KEAN
Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
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ISBN : 9781379624356
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T122600 With a final contents leaf. London: printed for J. Nourse, 1774. viii,41, [3]p.; 8°
Author : Samuel Dunn
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,86 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Latitude
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Author : Thomas H. Sumner
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Page : 124 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Sumner's method
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Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802779433
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Author : William Wales
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1794
Category : Longitude
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Author : George Edward Griffiths
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Page : 682 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Books
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Author : Thomas H. SUMNER
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : Tobias Smollett
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1764
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