Excerpt from The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for the Year 1777
All the Articles of the ephemeris were com puted by Two feparate Perfons, and examined by a Third, except the Moon's Longitude, Latitude, Right Afcenfion, Declination, Semidiameter, and Parallax, which, for Noon, were computed by One Perfon, and for Midnight by another, and the Truth of theic Calculations afcertained by means of Differences, which, for the Moon's Longitude, weré carried as far as the Fourth Order.
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