Confirmed minutes, 1823 - 1829
Scope and Contents
Minutes of Board of Longitude meetings regarding, among other matters, experiments to discover the longitude of Falmouth; instruments required by Fearon Fallows at the Cape of Good Hope; Sir Humphrey Davy's suggestion of publishing a catalogue of double stars by John Herschel and Sir James South; Johann Tiarks's trip to Heligoland to discover the longitude of the island and its relative position to both the coast of Germany and Greenwich; the purchase of a 14-foot reflecting telescope for the Cape Observatory; improvements to the 'Nautical Almanac'; errors in Taylor's logarithms, and a similar table belonging to Charles Babbage; and copies of letters sent by the Board of Longitude to various inventors of methods of finding longitude.
This volume contains a large number of blank pages [RGO 14/8: 64-199] and [RGO 14/8: 263-299].
Dates
- 1823 - 1829
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Extent
1 volume(s) (1 volume)
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
Vol. VIII
Original geographic information
Cambridge [subject]
Original geographic information
Edinburgh [subject]
Original geographic information
Falmouth [subject]
Original geographic information
Greenwich [subject]
Original geographic information
Helgoland [subject]
Original geographic information
Oxford [subject]
Finding aid date
2006-05-02 10:24:35+00:00
- Astronomy
- Babbage, Charles, 1791 - 1871 (mathematician)
- Baily, Francis, 1774 - 1844 (stockbroker and astronomer)
- Cambridge
- Davy, Humphry, Sir, 1778 - 1829 (1st Baronet, physicist)
- Edinburgh
- Fallows, Fearon, c1788 - 1831 (astronomer)
- Falmouth
- Geographical exploration
- Greenwich
- Hall, Basil, 1788 - 1844 (Captain Royal Navy, author)
- Helgoland
- Herschel, John, 1837 - 1921 (Colonel, surveyor and astronomer)
- Kater, Henry, 1777 - 1835 (geodesist and metrologist)
- Longitude
- Navigational aids
- Oxford
- Pond, John, 1767 - 1836 (astronomer)
- Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope
- Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788 - 1883 (Knight, army officer and physicist)
- South, James, Sir, 1785 - 1867 (Knight, astronomer)
- Tiarks, Johann Ludwig, 1789 - 1837 (astronomer and surveyor)
- Young, Thomas, 1773 - 1829 (physician, physicist and egyptologist)
Creator
- From the Management Group: Royal Greenwich Observatory (Organization)
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