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The longitude at sea, not to be found by firing guns, nor by the Most Curious Spring-Clocks or Watches. But the only true method for discovering that valuable secret by the sun, moon or stars, and an Exact Time-Keeper, with such Necessary Improvements, as have not yet been Describ'd by any other Person; and (with respect to the Term of any Ordinary Voyage) may properly be call'd a Perpetual Motion. Now Humbly Proposed, To the Consideration of the Publick, by Case Billingsley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billingsley, Case.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geographical positions--England--Early works to 1800.
- Geographical positions.
- Longitude--England--Early works to 1800.
- Longitude.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (28p. )
- Other Title:
- Longitude at sea,
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed for Richard Mount, and Company, on Tower-Hill, and John Morphew, near Stationers-Hall, 1714.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T137695.
- OCLC:
- 642405483
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