Instrument for observing the distance of the Moon from the fixed stars at sea
Date
16 August 1699
Creator
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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p3
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Dimensions
height (page): 293mm
width (page): 190mm
width (page): 190mm
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Description
In Newton's own hand.
'Sir Isaac Newtons description of an Instrument for observing at Sea, communicated to the Royal Society August 16th, 1699 by the journal of that day'. Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42, no. 465 (1742).
'Sir Isaac Newtons description of an Instrument for observing at Sea, communicated to the Royal Society August 16th, 1699 by the journal of that day'. Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 42, no. 465 (1742).
Object history
16 August 1699: 'Mr Newton shewed a new instrument contrived by him, for observing the Morn-stars, the longitude at sea, being the old instrument mended of some faults, with which notwithstanding Mr Halley had bound the Longitude, bettering the Seamen by other methods' (JBO/10/145).
Published as 'A True Copy of a Paper Found, in the Hand Writing of Sir Isaac Newton, among the Papers of the Late Dr. Halley, Containing a Description of an Instrument for Observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea', Phil.Trans., vol. 42, no. 465 (1742), pp. 155-56.
Published as 'A True Copy of a Paper Found, in the Hand Writing of Sir Isaac Newton, among the Papers of the Late Dr. Halley, Containing a Description of an Instrument for Observing the Moon's Distance from the Fixt Stars at Sea', Phil.Trans., vol. 42, no. 465 (1742), pp. 155-56.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
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