The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 90
of£20,000 for a clock or watch which should go soperfectly at sea, notwithstanding the tossing of theship and the wide changes of temperature to whichit might be exposed, that the navigator might at anymoment learn the true Greenwich time from it, hadbrought out the invention of Harrisons… … NEVIL MASKELYNE. HALLEY AND HIS SUCCESSORS suggested a hundred and thirty years before by theFrenchman, Morin, and others, a practicable one. In principle, the method of finding the longitudefrom lunars, that is to say, from measurements ofthe distances between the moon and certain stars, isan…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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