Notes the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Many scattered hints, and some valuable information relative to the application of chronometers to the accurate deduction of differences of longitude, exist in many detached works, but the subject seems to require condensation on some points, amplification on others, and systematic arrangement as a whole. The object of the Author in the following pages is to attempt to remedy this existing want, and to endeavour to supply naval officers, and others entrusted with the care of chronometers, with a manual of instruction how best to use them, and how to furnish systematic results in recording the meridian distances of the several places visited during their voyages.

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