First edition. 8vo. pp. xxiv, 101; one illust. to text; ex-library with Glasgow University bookplate to front pastedown, upper hinge partly cracked, else very good in the original cloth, presented With the Author s Compliments inscribed at head of title-page. Piazzi Smyth, then Astronomer Royal for Scotland, lectured on the history of the longitude question, giving an overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the matter, down to the 1850s. The illustration shows a compound free-revolver stand, the then latest development for the determination of longitude.

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Two Lectures delivered before the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. II. Present State of the Longitude Question in Navigation.

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Edinburgh: Printed for the Use of the Members, n.d. [1859].

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1859

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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