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Excerpt from Notes the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances In submitting to the notice of the naval profession a new edition of "Notes on the Management of Chronometers, and the Measurement of Meridian Distances," the Author has been desirous of rendering this work still more worthy of the favourable attention of students of nautical science. The whole work has been carefully revised, and many small improvements introduced. The writings of recent French authors, Givry, De Comulier, Lieussou, Mouchez, Vincendon Dumoulin, Coupvent Desbois, and Charles Ploix, have been carefully examined, and many valuable extracts from their works, taken chiefly from the pages of the "Recherches Chronometriques," a most useful publication, now in course of issue, under the auspices of the Minister of Marine at Paris, enrich the present volume both in the text and notes. The important questions of the effects of change of temperature, and the influence of the acceleration, have been fully entered into. For this purpose a new chapter (chapter vi.) has been interpolated in this edition, in which the systems of De Comulier, Lieussou, and Mouchez have been amply discussed and commented on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.