Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire

Chapter 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c. 1750–1850

Chapter 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742–85

Chapter 6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London’s Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–60

Chapter 7 ‘Perfectly Correct’: Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy

Chapter 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy

Chapter 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France

Chapter 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766–1840

Chapter 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?

Chapter 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement ‘in the Wild’, 1770–1840