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Figure 6

A page of pen and ink notes and sketches relating to longitude observation using a telescope from 1788

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‘One of my methods for discovering longitude’: in 1788 a Shetland schoolmaster, John Tulloch, sent the Board of Longitude this scheme to enable simultaneous telescopic observations from a ship of stars and the Moon.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/140203/007