Lunar and Time Tables, Adapted to New, Short, and Accurate Methods for Finding the Longitude by Chronometers and Lunar Distances: Including Methods of ... Figure of the Earth, the Apparent Elliptical - Hardcover

Gordon, James

9780266462491: Lunar and Time Tables, Adapted to New, Short, and Accurate Methods for Finding the Longitude by Chronometers and Lunar Distances: Including Methods of ... Figure of the Earth, the Apparent Elliptical

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ISBN 10: 0266462499 ISBN 13: 9780266462491

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Lunar and Time Tables, Adapted to New, Short, and Accurate Methods for Finding the Longitude by Chronometers and Lunar Distances: Including Methods of Applying Corrections to a Lunar Distance for the Spheroidal Figure of the Earth, the Apparent Elliptical Forms of the Sun and Moon, and for the Temperature and Density of the Atmosphere

Mathematicians of the highest celebrity, and found to be correct.

Second, that Captain Thomson's Tables cannot give correct results in all cases may be thus proved. The third correction depends upon the parallax of the Moon, whereas the changes in this element are entirely neglected in Thomson's Tables.

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