Scope and Contents From the File:

The letters are primarily from Nevil Maskelyne but include three sent to Andrews by Margaret Maskelyne, following the death of her father.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The letters are primarily from Nevil Maskelyne but include three sent to Andrews by Margaret Maskelyne, following the death of her father.

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...

Scope and Contents Computations from observations primarily of the right ascensions and declinations or the longitudes and latitudes of the Sun, Moon and planets.1. Sun's declination, 2 May 1768 - 1 January 1769.2. Obliquity of the ecliptic, 1 August 1767 - 1 November 1769.3. Sun's declination from 1 August 1767 to 26 January 1769.4. Sun's longitude from computations of Johann Mayer's tables, 25 January 1768 - 12 May 1768. The computations are missing.5. Reductions of...

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'Lunar theory in conjunction with the Newtonian system.' The work includes Johann Mayer's tables, preparation and reduction of the equations, workings in infinitesimal calculus, the solar parallaxes and the Moon's longitude.

Scope and Contents Part of the computations of Charles Mason's lunar tables of 1778, including comparisons of the tables of the Moon in longitude and latitude, with observations. The volume includes tables on the annual equation of the anomaly and ascending node of the Moon, details of the Moon's longitude, corrections and reductions. There are computations of the Moon's longitude and latitude as compared to Johann Mayer's tables, 1751-1760; computed longitude of the Moon compared with observed longitude,...

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The Moon's observed right ascension, declination, longitude and latitude compared with Johann Mayer's tables, 8 January 1772 - 30 December 1776, and with Charles Mason's tables, 1 January 1777 - 30 December 1782.

Scope and Contents From the File:

The letters are primarily from Nevil Maskelyne but include three sent to Andrews by Margaret Maskelyne, following the death of her father.

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Observations of the Moon compared with the results of Johann Mayer's tables, 28 August 1762 - 29 December 1771.

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Reductions of the Moon's place for the period 13 September 1750 to 23 August 1760, with reference to Johann Mayer's improved tables. The volume includes the techniques employed for the observations and some corrections.

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Includes a piece on Johann Mayer's lunar tables.

Scope and Contents Various observations and calculations, primarily of the stars.1. Tables and equations for the Earth's perturbations by Venus and Jupiter and for the lunar equation.2. Catalogue of the stars for 1690 and 1760, with elements for their aberrations.3. Corrections for the tables of Dalembert, Halley, Mayer and Clairaut.4. To find the aberration in right ascension and declination.5. Comparisons with Nicholas Louis de Lacaille's star catalogue, 1750 and...

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The Sun's observed right ascension in time and in arc and its deduced longitude as compared to Johann Mayer's tables, 1 January 1787 - 20 December 1796. The volume lists Maskelyne's assistants from 1783 to 1796.

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The Sun's observed right ascension and longitude in comparison with Johann Mayer's tables, 28 August 1762 - 31 December 1782, a corrected and updated version of RGO 4/48.