Name: Tables Requisite to be Used With the Nautical Ephemeris, for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea: Published by Order of the Commissioners of lon (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Nevil Maskelyne
ISBN: 9781108068925

portada Tables Requisite to be Used With the Nautical Ephemeris, for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea: Published by Order of the Commissioners of lon (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Autor

Nevil Maskelyne

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781108068925

N° edición

Categorías

Historia de la humanidad

Tables Requisite to be Used With the Nautical Ephemeris, for Finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea: Published by Order of the Commissioners of lon (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics) (en Inglés)

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Successful long-distance navigation depends on knowing latitude and longitude, and the determination of longitude depends on knowing the exact time at some fixed point on the earth's surface. Since Newton it had been hoped that a method based on accurate prediction of the moon's orbit would give such a time. Building on the work of Euler, Thomas Mayer and others, the astronomer and mathematician Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811) was able to devise such a method and yearly publication of the Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris placed it in the hands of every ship's captain. First published in 1767 and reissued here in the revised third edition of 1802, the present work provided the necessary tables and instructions. The development of rugged and accurate chronometers eventually displaced Maskelyne's method, but navigators continued to make use of it for many decades. This edition of the tables notably formed part of the library of the Beagle on Darwin's famous voyage.