A Proposal of a method for finding the longitude at sea within a degree or twenty leagues, by Dr. Edmund Halley, Astr. Reg. Vice-President of the Royal Society; with an account of the progress he hath made therin by a continued series of accurate observations of the moon, taken by himself at the Royal Observatory at

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Greenwich. Philosophical Transactions 1731, vol. 37, Numb. 421, S. 185-195. Original-Interimsumschlag mit Fadenbindung, gr. 8°. Umschlag gebräunt, bestoßen und angerändert, mit Einrissen. Unbeschnittenes, breitrandiges Exemplar. Text etwas gebräunt. Halley, heute hauptsächlich wegen des nach ihm benannten "Halleyschen Kometen" (1682) bekannt, war der bedeutendste Vorreiter in der Erforschung der Längenbestimmung zur See und führte deshalb 1683 und 1692 zwei Seereisen durch auf denen er Daten sammelte, um eine Methode zu finden, die geographische Länge durch die Abweichung der Magnetnadel festzulegen. In der vorliegenden Schrift veröffentlicht er seine Methode zur Auffindung des Längengrades durch Beobachtung des Mondes. Diese Ausgabe enthält 6 weitere Abhandlungen von anderen Autoren und zu anderen Themen, dazu 2 schöne, gefaltete Pflanzentafeln zu "A Botanial Invitation to forward an History of the Plants of Swisserland, by Dr. John Jacob Scheuchzer".

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A Proposal of a method for finding the longitude at sea within a degree or twenty leagues, by Dr. Edmund Halley, Astr. Reg. Vice-President of the Royal Society; with an account of the progress he hath made therin by a continued series of accurate observations of the moon, taken by himself at the Royal Observatory at
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