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Navigational Enterprises in Europe and its Empires, 1730–1850
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Table of Contents
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Altmetric BadgeBook Overview
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 1 Introduction
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 2 A Southern Meridian: Astronomical Undertakings in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 3 The Longitude Committee and the Practice of Navigation in the Netherlands, c. 1750–1850
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 4 From Lacaille to Lalande: French Work on Lunar Distances, Nautical Ephemerides and Lunar Tables, 1742–85
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 5 The Bureau des Longitudes: An Institutional Study
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 6 Patriotic and Cosmopolitan Patchworks: Following a Swedish Astronomer into London’s Communities of Maritime Longitude, 1759–60
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 7 ‘Perfectly Correct’: Russian Navigators and the Royal Navy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 8 A Different Kind of Longitude: The Metrology of Location by Geodesy
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 9 Testing Longitude Methods in Mid-Eighteenth Century France
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 10 Navigating the Pacific from Bougainville to Dumont d’Urville: French Approaches to Determining Longitude, 1766–1840
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 11 Navigation and Mathematics: A Match Made in the Heavens?
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Altmetric BadgeChapter 12 Longitude Networks on Land and Sea: The East India Company and Longitude Measurement ‘in the Wild’, 1770–1840