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
1st Edition
Published on 27. November 2019
978-0-243-75798-5 (ISBN)
Description
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.
