Monteiro da Rocha and the international debate in the 1760s on astronomical methods to find the longitude at sea: his proposals and criticisms to Lacaille’s lunar-distance method
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DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2022.2059567
Abstract: ABSTRACT In the 1760s, the international debate on the solution to determining longitude at sea is at its acme. Two solutions emerge, the mechanical and the astronomical ones. The Portuguese mathematician and astronomer José Monteiro… read more here.
Keywords: distance method; debate; monteiro rocha; lunar distance ... See more keywords