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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
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    Chapter 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c. 1750–1850
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    Chapter 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742–85
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    Chapter 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study
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    Chapter 6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London’s Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–60
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    Chapter 7 ‘Perfectly Correct’: Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy
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    Chapter 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy
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    Chapter 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France
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    Chapter 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766–1840
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    Chapter 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?
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    Chapter 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement ‘in the Wild’, 1770–1840
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Chapter title
Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766–1840
Chapter number 10
Book title
Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 2015
DOI 10.1057/9781137520647_10
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-56744-7, 978-1-137-52064-7
Authors

John Gascoigne

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Portugal 1 100%

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Researcher 1 100%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 1 100%

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