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On the new method of determining the longitude by the culmination of the moon and stars being a paper read before the Astronomical society of London. To which are now added an appendix, and a list of stars, applicable to the purpose, for the year 1825 / By Francis Baily.
Baily, Francis, 1774-1844.Date: 1824- Books
A proposal to determine our longitude / By Jane Squire.
Squire, Jane, 1671?-1743.Date: 1743- 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]
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Pétition au Parlement britannique, sur la spoliation d'un savant étranger par le Bureau des Longitudes de Londres / soumise par Höeneé Wronski.
Hoene-Wroński, Józef Maria, 1776-1853.Date: 1822
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Johann Caspar Eisenschmidt. Line engraving.
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