Titlebook: Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850; Richard Dunn (Senior Curator for the History of Sc Book 2015 The Editor(s)

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From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 174f Jupiter’s satellites, lunar distances were under intense discussion in France between Cardinal Richelieu and the French savant Jean-Baptiste Morin.. Drawing on the work of sixteenth-century authors including Gemma Frisius, Johannes Werner and Peter Apian, Morin set down 13 propositions outlining a

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Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London’s Communities of Mal, he professed to being shocked and bewildered by the chaotic city life: the area around Leadenhall Street, where he arrived, was nothing like he had imagined the city. Ferrner — a man who repeatedly praised orderly and well-arranged structures in his journal — considered the streets crowded, intr

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‘Perfectly Correct’: Russian Navigators and the Royal Navyf the eighteenth century, Tsar Peter I set about reforming the Russian military following disastrous campaigns in the Great Northern War with Sweden, and created a substantial Baltic fleet centred on the new capital, St Petersburg.. To provide expertise for training sailors on Russian ships, Peter t

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A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesyh-cited example is that of the unfortunate Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, who perished in 1707 along with at least 1,400 of his men. Several of his fleet’s ships struck rocks off the Isles of Scilly on the way home, in a costly failure of navigation. But a historical emphasis on the difficulties of

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Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longiss the balance of power so grievously disturbed by the expansionist energies of perfidious Albion. France, however, faced the same problem as its rival in venturing into what was, from a European perspective, largely a new quarter of the globe. Navigating the Pacific magnified across a third of the

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Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement ‘in the Wild’, d the problem of determining longitude at sea.. Neither Harrison’s timekeepers nor the cheaper, more seaworthy, chronometers of Arnold and Earnshaw immediately transformed the longitude problem, partly because there were alternative, well-supported methods, notably that employing lunar distances, pr