Vancouver, George, 1758 - 1798 (explorer)
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Confirmed minutes, 1780 - 1801
Journal entries concerning O'Whyhee [Hawaii], 1792-04-28 - 1792-05-07
Letter book containing outgoing correspondence, 1782 - 1810
Letter from George Vancouver to William Wales, 1796-03-04 - 1796-12-13
Letter, dated 4 March 1796, concerning observations Vancouver had made during a voyage around the world on HMS Discovery. With a copy of a note to Sir Joseph Banks (on the back page) that the observations were to be reduced, dated 13 December 1796.
Letter from John Vancouver to the Commissioners of the Board of Longitude, 1823-09-02
Concerning a mode by which chronometers could be kept at a stable temperature.
Nautical astronomy, 1770 - 1810
A set of loose pages dealing with problems in ascertaining latitude and longitude at sea by observation of the stars, with descriptions, computations and formulae referred to apparent time. There are also sections on finding the Moon's longitude from the nautical ephemeris [RGO 4/196: 1r], the motion of the Sun's image in a Hadley quadrant [RGO 4/196: 2r], and the testing of other people's hypotheses.
It is not known if the papers are foliated in their original order.
Observations from Cook's last voyage, 1778-12-26 - 1780-08-18
Observations in the voyage of the Daedalus, 1791 - 1792
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