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scheme of prizes intended to encourage innovators to solve the problem of finding longitude at sea. Navigators and scientists had been working on the problem...7 KB (683 words) - 10:16, 8 August 2023
The Longitude Act 1714 was an Act of Parliament of Great Britain passed in July 1714 at the end of the reign of Queen Anne. It established the Board of...7 KB (749 words) - 19:16, 10 October 2023
Books. The third session of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 31 October 1776 until 6 June 1777. Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act 1774...108 KB (858 words) - 15:06, 11 July 2024
Nevil Maskelyne (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)its use in 1763 in The British Mariner's Guide, which included the suggestion that to facilitate the finding of longitude at sea, lunar distances should...20 KB (2,100 words) - 20:44, 3 February 2024
Northwest Passage (redirect from Discovery of Northern Passage Act 1776)The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America...127 KB (13,515 words) - 05:54, 9 July 2024- Richard Dunthorne (section Acceleration of the Moon)parallax, for the purpose of finding the longitude at sea, and Maskelyne included this in his 'Tables requisite to be used with the Nautical Ephemeris', an...14 KB (1,654 words) - 21:38, 25 June 2024
at 144°W longitude, roughly through the middle of the Gulf of Alaska. Recent evidence suggests the sea lions in Russia in the Sea of Okhotsk and the Kuril...40 KB (4,498 words) - 18:26, 7 July 2024
James Cook (redirect from Proteges of Captain Cook)in the West Indies), Elizabeth (1767–1771), Joseph (1768–1768), George (1772–1772) and Hugh (1776–1793, who died of scarlet fever while a student at Christ's...102 KB (10,398 words) - 06:53, 18 July 2024
Southern Ocean (redirect from Antarctic Sea)Gonneyville" – resulted in the discovery of Bouvet Island in 54°10′ S, and in the navigation of 48° of longitude of ice-cumbered sea nearly in 55° S in 1730...114 KB (14,707 words) - 17:02, 27 June 2024
Greenland (redirect from Greenland of the Kingdom of Denmark)and longitudes 11° and 74°W. Greenland is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Greenland Sea to the east, the North Atlantic Ocean to the southeast...179 KB (16,931 words) - 14:56, 18 July 2024
Tuvalu (redirect from Military of Tuvalu)between the longitude of 176° and 180°. They lie west of the International Date Line. The 2017 census determined that Tuvalu had a population of 10,645...252 KB (23,963 words) - 05:48, 19 July 2024
Mason–Dixon line (redirect from North–South divide in the United States)degrees of longitude, to be computed from the river Delaware, for the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, and that a meridian, drawn from the western extremity...49 KB (5,681 words) - 03:22, 14 July 2024
New York (state) (redirect from The State of New York)Independence on July 9, 1776. The New York State Constitution was framed by a convention which assembled at White Plains on July 10, 1776, and after repeated...217 KB (20,372 words) - 22:58, 16 July 2024
Portuguese Empire (redirect from History of the Portuguese Empire)such as the caravel, with the aim of finding a sea route to the source of the lucrative spice trade. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope...138 KB (14,395 words) - 01:07, 12 July 2024- July 1781. Release of Prisoners by Rioters Act 1780 (20 Geo. 3. c. 64) Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1776 (17 Geo. 3. c. 9) Land Tax Act 1781 (21 Geo. 3....67 KB (673 words) - 20:44, 3 July 2024
- Roads Act 1754 (27 Geo. 2. c. 42) Leicester Roads Act 1776 (16 Geo. 3. c. 81) Martyn's Gutter is a stream, also known as Mardon Sich, which formed the boundary...96 KB (777 words) - 15:37, 15 July 2024
Stephen Hopkins (politician) (category Signers of the United States Declaration of Independence)served in the Continental Congress until September 1776, when failing health forced him to resign. He was a strong backer of the College of the English...46 KB (5,286 words) - 00:41, 9 March 2024
way at the time to determine longitude, making Dutch landfalls on the west coast of Australia inevitable, as well as ships becoming wrecked on the shoals...64 KB (7,404 words) - 09:43, 4 June 2024
it probable that a ship from the Magellan expedition discovered the islands citing the difficulty in measuring longitude accurately, which means that...97 KB (12,454 words) - 22:38, 30 April 2024
Lieutenant of the Navy; she is fitting out at Deptford for the South Sea, thought to be intended for the newly discovered island." The Gazette de France of 20...63 KB (7,939 words) - 00:34, 16 July 2024
- the astronomer, for some more protracted tests at the observatory (1776-7). The board of longitude in the meantime gave Mudge five hundred guineas, and
- forming a right judgment of the accuracy and certainty with which observations proper for finding the longitude at sea by the moon can in fact be taken;
- along coastline cities at sea level or important city centers which had determined accurate latitude and longitude. The concept of triangulation would become