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Instructions concerning the use of pendulum-watches, for finding the longitude at sea

Published:01 January 1669https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1669.0013

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Whereas 'tis generally esteemed that there is no practise for the finding of the longitude at sea comparable to that of those watches, which instead of a ballance-wheele are regulated by a pendulum, as now they are brought to great perfection, and made to measure time very equally; and many perhaps here as well as elsewhere being not well versed in the ordering and managing of that instrument:

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31 December 1669

Volume 4Issue 47

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1669.0013
Published by:Royal Society
Print ISSN:0261-0523
Online ISSN:2053-9223

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Instructions concerning the use of pendulum-watches, for finding the longitude at sea

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