Confirmed minutes, 1737 - 1779
Scope and Contents
Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, discussions on John Harrison's first marine chronometer (H1); the purchase of new instruments for work on the longitude and latitude of the coasts of Britain; improvements to the reflecting telescope; Tobias Mayer's lunar motion tables; the trial of John Harrison's chronometers; errors in the tables of the satellites; Schutz's machine for finding longitude; Chistopher Irwin's marine chair; the use of lunar observations for finding longitude at sea; Nevil Maskelyne's use of Hadley's Quadrant; Lyons's method for finding the corrections of the refractions of parallax; attempts to obtain observations made by James Bradley when he was Astronomer Royal; the publication of the 'Nautical Almanac'; the mural arc at Greenwich; John Harrison's attempts to claim the reward for his work on chronometers and finding longitude at sea; the construction of further chronometers by John Harrison's son and Larcum Kendall; Lysle and Swedenberg's method of discovering longitude at sea; the trial of John Arnold's timekeeper; the voyages of HMS 'Resolution' and HMS 'Adventure'; the printing of Edward Halley's Journal; the tables of Leonhard Euler; Thomas Mudge's objections to the trial method for chronometers; the voyages of HMS 'Resolution' and HMS 'Discovery' under Captain James Cook to the South Seas and the nautical and astronomical work carried out; work by Jesse Ramsden and others on accurate divisions for mathematical instruments; a prize claimed by Charles Mason for work on solar and lunar tables; a petition by J. Shelton; and J. Richmond's instrument for taking horizontal angles at sea.
Dates
- 1737 - 1779
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume (179 ff.))
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
Vol. V
Original geographic information
South Pacific Ocean [subject]
Finding aid date
2006-05-02 10:24:25+00:00
- Arnold, Christoph, 1650 - 1695 (farmer and astronomer)
- Banks, Joseph, Sir, 1743 - 1820 (Baronet, naturalist)
- Bird, John, 1709 - 1776 (maker of scientific instruments)
- Cook, James, 1728 - 1779 (Captain, Royal Navy explorer)
- Euler, Leonhard, 1707 - 1783 (mathematician and physicist)
- HMS Adventure, barque and survey ship (1771-1811)
- HMS Resolution, sloop (1770-1782)
- Halley, Edmond, 1656 - 1742 (astronomer)
- Harrison, John, 1693 - 1776 (horologist)
- Irwin, Christopher, fl1762 - 1765 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Kendall, Larcum, 1719 - 1790 (watchmaker)
- Longitude
- Maskelyne, Nevil, 1732 - 1811 (astronomer and mathematician)
- Mason, Charles, 1728 - 1786 (astronomer and mathematician)
- Mayer, Johann Tobias, 1723 - 1762 (astronomer)
- Mudge, Thomas, c1715 - 1794 (horologist)
- Ramsden, Jesse, 1735 - 1800 (optician and mechanician)
- Richmond, John, fl1778 (petitioner to the Board of Longitude)
- Shelton, John, fl1768 - 1778 (clockmaker)
- South Pacific Ocean
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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