Longitude to be found out with a new invented instrument, both by sea and land. Also, Some Reasons for finding it thereby, extracted from the Three Years Observations made at Islington by Dr. Edmund Halley, Savilian Professor of Geometry in Oxford, for knowing the true Place of the Moon, and which now are inserted in Mr. Street's Caroline Tables. With A better Method for discovering Longitude, than that lately propos'd by Mr. Whiston and Mr. Ditton. Written by R. B. secretary to the Honourable Sir Francis Wheeler, when Admiral and General in an Expedition to Martineco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

R. B., Secretary to Sir Francis Wheeler.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Astronomical instruments--Islington (England)--Early works to 1800.

Astronomical instruments.

Longitude--Early works to 1800.

Longitude.

[Halley, Edmund]--Scientific apparatus collections--Early works to 1800.

[Halley, Edmund].

Physical Description:

1 online resource (32p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Longitude to be found out with a new invented instrument,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for F. Burleigh in Amen Corner, 1714.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T129167.

OCLC:

642358009