Excerpt from The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea by Time-Keepers: To Which Are Added, Tables of Equations to Equal Altitudes In preof of what 1s here advanced, I can allure the reader, that I have heard more doubts caprefi'ed, and more difficul ties (tar-ted relative to what is called the rate of a time-keeper's going, the proper mode of obtaining it, and the degree of dependence which may be placed on them, in the laft twelve or eighteen months, than in all my life before, though I have been pretty 1nt1mate with ...
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Excerpt from The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea by Time-Keepers: To Which Are Added, Tables of Equations to Equal Altitudes In preof of what 1s here advanced, I can allure the reader, that I have heard more doubts caprefi'ed, and more difficul ties (tar-ted relative to what is called the rate of a time-keeper's going, the proper mode of obtaining it, and the degree of dependence which may be placed on them, in the laft twelve or eighteen months, than in all my life before, though I have been pretty 1nt1mate with the fubje???t for near forty year5??? and;, I; am firmly perfuaded that if the ufe of time-keepers had not been well eftablifhed by experience before thefe new doctrines were broached, they Would not have been fpeedil'y introduced into pra???tice now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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