Board of Longitude
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Found in 341 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter from Arthur Hodge to the Board of Longitude, 1822-01-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 239-240
Scope and Contents
Enquiring whether he could submit a drawing and description of his invention of a perpetual log before the Board. He states that his log was 'of the most simple kind, cheap, easy and convenient', but first had to be regulated.
Dates:
1822-01-28
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Letter from Bartholomew de Sanctis to the Board of Longitude, 1825
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 434-436a
Scope and Contents
Outlining the results of his experiments and observations. The letter is addressed from Portman Square; de Sanctis however remarks that he is ‘without home (sweet home!)’.
Dates:
1825
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Letter from Bartholomew de Sanctis to the Board of Longitude, 1825-09-17
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 437-438
Scope and Contents
Concerning his observations on refraction and his new experiments on 'the fluid portable horizon'. Marked 'Third and last'.
Dates:
1825-09-17
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Letter from Bartholomew de Sanctis to the Board of Longitude, 1825-09-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 439-440
Scope and Contents
Originally enclosing an article from an Italian journal on the Ephemeris of Venus.
Dates:
1825-09-03
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Letter from Bartholomew de Sanctis to the Board of Longitude, 1825
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 441-441a
Scope and Contents
Concerning 'Ludlan's method of taking double altitude of celestial beings' and also his own experiments.
Dates:
1825
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Benjamin Pacey to the Board of Longitude, 1808-05-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 553-553a
Scope and Contents
Offering assistance in determining longitude. Pacey states that he had found 'true time' and could 'start any machine in the kingdom by a perpetual motion to set itself at work and repeat itself without the assistance of any individual'.
Dates:
1808-05-23
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from C. Becher on a telescope for observing the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 1815-05-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 53-55
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1815-05-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from [C. Gottlich Rudorf], 1799
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 108-109
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-file:
With an index of names.
Dates:
1799
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Captain Alexander Fraser to the Board of Longitude, 1806-09-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/25: 354
Scope and Contents
Concerning Earnshaw's pocket chronometer No.462.
Dates:
1806-09-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from Charles Bagot to the Board of Longitude, 1822-09-13
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/35: 408
Scope and Contents
Enclosing the letter from J. Riboult at [RGO 14/35: 409].
Dates:
1822-09-13
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Clarke to the Board of Longitude, 1787-06-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/34: 57-58
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters.
Dates:
1787-06-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from Charles Davenport on a method of ascertaining longitude, 1804-11-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/45: 382-383
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Correspondence regarding miscellaneous schemes and inventions.
Dates:
1804-11-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from Charles Grosett to the Board of Longitude, 1796-11-16 - 1797-11-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 77-78
Scope and Contents
The letter begins with a copy of an earlier letter he had sent to the Board.
Dates:
1796-11-16 - 1797-11-16
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from Charles Hudson to the Board of Longitude, 1819-10-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 272-275
Scope and Contents
Outlining his proposals for determining longitude by the dip of the sun at noon. Also duplicate copy of the same. Both are witnessed by Thomas Gibson.
Dates:
1819-10-03
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Hudson to the Board of Longitude, 1819-11-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 276-277
Scope and Contents
Outlining a second method of finding longitude, based on lunar movement.
Dates:
1819-11-04
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Moody to George Gilpin, 1806-01-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 384
Scope and Contents
In which Moody states that the Board of Longitude had not given his plan and apparatus for longitude the attention it merited. He re-informs them that his son had tested out his plan while at sea on a voyage from Shields to Memel and back, and submits figures for latitude and longitude from the voyage.
Dates:
1806-01-30
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Moody to the Board of Longitude, 1808-01-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 110-111
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-file:
With an index of names.
Dates:
1808-01-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
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Letter from Charles Moody to the Board of Longitude, 1801-08-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 377-377a
Scope and Contents
Informing the Board that he had sent an improved version of his plan for finding longitude.
Dates:
1801-08-05
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Moody to the Board of Longitude, 1802-02-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 378-379
Scope and Contents
Enquiring whether they had received a plan and apparatus for finding longitude which he had sent via Captain Simoy of the London Packet of Sunderland.
Dates:
1802-02-04
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Charles Moody to the Board of Longitude, 1801 - 1802
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 380-380a
Scope and Contents
Outlining his improved plan for finding longitude.
Dates:
1801 - 1802
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from Christian Siemers to the Board of Longitude, 1817-05-29
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 333-336
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Three letters; one of which bears a note on the reverse that his proposal was rejected [RGO 14/38: 332v].
Dates:
1817-05-29
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
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Christian Siemers on a method using an instrument for observing polar altitudes
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Letter from D. Chambers to the Board of Longitude, 1806-12-31
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 551-552
Scope and Contents
Concerning his method of finding longitude by keeping 'equable time'.
Dates:
1806-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from D. Katterns on ascertaining longitude by the moon's passage over different meridians, 1806-09-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/34: 148-150
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1806-09-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from David Christieson to the Board of Longitude, 1817-04-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 340-341
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters from Christieson, with a forwarding letter from John Brand. Correspondence from Christieson was sent to the Board via Mr Brand (in Montrose) and James Farquhar (in London).
Dates:
1817-04-08
Conditions Governing Access:
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Letter from David Riz on a perpetual log, 1790-01-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 3-5
Scope and Contents
Letter to the Board of Longitude written on behalf of Mr Castriote of Portugal, who had invented a repeating or perpetual log and two further machines which he wished to present before the Board.
Dates:
1790-01-20
Conditions Governing Access:
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