| ID: | 7933 |
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| Entry Text: | Forbes, Eric G. The Birth of Scientific Navigation: The Solving in the Eighteenth Century of the Problem of Finding Longitude at Sea. Greenwich: NMM, 1974, 25 pp. Foreword: David W. Waters; Tobias Mayer, 1723-1762, lunar tables; John Harrison, 1693-1776, chronometer. |